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Open Source Escrow to the Rescue

By adminAugust 19, 2010

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 sticky situation …

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“Solr Power with Lucene” at devoxx09

By Erik HatcherNovember 13, 2009

Tuesday, 17 November 2009
09:30 to 12:30
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
16:40 to 17:40

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,

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Solr Flair at ApacheCon US 09 (Lucene Meetup)

By Erik HatcherNovember 4, 2009

Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr (ApacheCon US 2009, Lucene Meetup)

View more documents from Erik Hatcher.

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Come to the Lucene Meetup at ApacheCon in Oakland!

By adminNovember 2, 2009

Tuesday, 3 November 2009
20:00 to 22:00

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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Webinar: Apache Solr 1.4 – Faster, Easier, and More Versatile than Ever

By adminOctober 5, 2009

Friday, 9 October 2009
10:00 to 11:00

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 …

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The high bar for relevancy?

By adminOctober 4, 2009

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 the following …

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Webinar: “Apache Lucene 2.9: Discover the Powerful New Features” presented by Grant Ingersoll

By Erik HatcherSeptember 22, 2009

Thursday, 24 September 2009
11:00 to 12:00

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
  • …

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Save $200 and visit us at Enterprise Search Summit West

By adminSeptember 21, 2009

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 to Thursday, 19 November 2009

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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JavaZone

By Erik HatcherSeptember 15, 2009

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 speakers (some of …

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EdUI Conference – Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr

By Erik HatcherAugust 20, 2009

Monday, 21 September 2009 to Tuesday, 22 September 2009

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 – …

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