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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A small bug discovered in LucidGaze for Lucene kept us on our toes tonight. A fix is already up.

All of the users who downloaded LucidGaze for Lucene in the last 24 hours are kindly requested to re-download it from our downloads page

What can the bug do?

It can impact large Lucene implementations, as it has an issue with the way the debug log is produced (may miss some…

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Java Developers have long been familiar with the power of the Apache Lucene open source search library, and have made it a top project both in the Java world and the apache world.

Because search applications can address an ambitious diversity of document indexes, searches, and queries, native Lucene Java application developers are often challenged to account for variations in performance of their Lucene application. It is vital to the developers to understand how quickly…

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