Lucid Imagination is the first commercial entity exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr open source technology.

The Lucene search library currently ranks among the top 15 open source projects and is one of the top 5 Apache projects, with installations at over 4,000 companies. Lucene/Solr downloads have grown nearly 10x over the past three years, with a current run-rate of well over 7,000 downloads a day. The Solr search server, which provides application builders a ready-to-use search platform on top of the Lucene search library, is the fastest growing Lucene sub-project. Apache Lucene/Solr offers an attractive alternative to the proprietary licensed search and discovery software vendors. The search and discovery market is growing at 28% a year, with 2007 revenue of $1.8 billion. (IDC, Sept 2008).

As an active participant in the enormous community using Lucene/Solr, Lucid Imagination offers certified distributions of Lucene and Solr, commercial-grade support, training, high-level consulting and value-added software extensions. The company’s web site serves as a knowledge portal for the Lucene community, with information and resources to help developers build and deploy Lucene-based solutions in a more efficient and cost-effective manner.

The Lucid Imagination founding team consists of several key contributors and committers to the Lucene project, as well as experts in enterprise search application development.

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