Do you remember this scenario from days of yore?

• Company A buys a software license from Company B, a startup.
• Company A crosses its fingers that Company B doesn’t go bankrupt and disappear, along with the source code for Company A’s mission-critical software.
• Company B goes kaput.
• Company A is left with some machine-readable binary code that it is powerless to develop or use.

Source code escrow has changed the outcome of this…

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I will be presenting two sessions at the devoxx conference next week in Antwerp, Belgium.  Both sessions share the same title “Solr Power with Lucene” and abstract.  The first session is a 3 hour “University” course, the second talk is a 1 hour succinct version.

Solr powers the search of many enterprise applications, and long before Solr shone on enterprise search, Lucene – Solr’s core library,

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Come visit us at the Lucene Meetup at ApacheCon on Tuesday 11/3 from 8-10pm. All are welcome to come – there is no cost for this event. Come meet many of the key contributors to Lucene and Solr. Sponsored by Lucid Imagination.

Location: Marriott Oakland City Center, Rooms 1&2

For more information about the meetup, visit
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneAtApacheConUs2009

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If you’ve got a lot of data to tame in a variety of formats, there’s no better, deeper, faster platform to build your search application with than Solr. Solr 1.4 expands the power and versatility of the leading open source search server, with its convenient web-services interfaces and well-packaged server implementation.

>>>  Download slides and view webinar recording

Erik Hatcher, co-founder of Lucid Imagination, co-author of Lucene in Action, and…

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A big chunk of the billions that go to search-engine marketing and search engine optimization, SEM and SEO, (mostly to you-know-who) are spent on getting to Page 1 of the results.

I won’t be the first to point out that relevance for in-house search — i.e., without using Pagerank — is a harder nut to crack. How much harder? A recent study from Aberdeen Group, publicized this week in Information Week, provides…

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Lucene 2.9 offers a rich set of new features and performance improvements alongside plentiful fixes and optimizations. If you are a Java developer building search applications with the Lucene search library, this webinar provides the insights you need to harness the power of this important update to Apache Lucene.

Grant will present and discuss key technical features and innovations including:

• Real time/Per segment searching and caching
• Built in numeric

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Save $200 and visit Lucid Imagination at

Enterprise Search Summit West
November 17-19, 2009
San Jose McEnery Convention Center
http://enterprisesearchsummit.com/west2009/

Save $200 off the conference pass and get a free Expo pass.
Go here:
https://secure.infotoday.com/forms/default.aspx?form=esswest
and use discount code: VIPLI

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First, major kudos to the JavaZone team for putting on one of the most impressive conferences I’ve attended and had the honor at which to speak.  From the tasty and hearty speakers dinner to Carl delivering my post-talk absent mindedly forgotten power cable to my hotel, the organizers put on a very well organized and classy event.  The conference not only sported top notch technical content from the best of the best…

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I will be presenting “Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr” at the upcoming EdUI 2009 Conference.  I’m honored to be finally speaking at the same conference as my great friend and UI mentor, Molly Holzschlag.  I’ve got my work cut out for me to come up with a presentation worthy for a “UI” conference with folks of this caliber headlining – I’m…

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