Where is the Open Source in LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr?

I’ve gotten quite a few inquiries during the last month from people interested in the sources of LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr. I’m happy to see our Certified Distribution generating so much interest in the community; more than a  few large companies are developing with it and using the certified distribution in order as the foundation of their search applications. I’d love to see even more companies adopting the certified distribution for their needs.

The sources…

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Solr Shines Through the Cloud – LucidWorks Solr on EC2

Overview

Lucid Imagination has now packaged the latest version of our LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr 1.4 as an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI). It’s available for free to anyone with an Amazon Web Services account and Amazon EC2 access. In this post, I’ll outline what this is about, what it can do for you and instructions on how to get it started.

Our free AMI running LucidWorks for Solr offers the following benefits:

  1. A very straightforward way to get a Solr…

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Announcement: New LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr

We’re happy to announce the availability of the latest release of LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr.

LucidWorks for Solr v1.4 is a major update for LucidWorks for Solr, incorporating Apache Solr release 1.4, an upgrade for all of the packaged utilities, and two new additions – a reference guide and an installer and update service.

Solr 1.4 Reference Guide

Developed by Lucid Imagination, the new reference guide organizes and unifies key information on all important features and functions…

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Announcement: New LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Lucene

We’re happy to announce the availability of the latest release of LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Lucene.

LucidWorks for Lucene v2.9.1 is a major update for the LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Lucene,  incorporating Apache Lucene release 2.9.1, an upgrade to all of the accompanying utilities, extensive testing performed by Lucid Imagination and the feedback from many of our users who have downloaded and using it to power their search applications.

Change log for LucidWorks for Lucene v2.9.1 includes:

  • Upgrade…

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Announcement: LucidWorks for Solr update

Shortly after we released LucidWorks for Solr v.1.3_01 (see below), we found out that Apache Tomcat released a new minor version that fixes a security vulnerability. Our LucidWorks for Solr update v1.3_02 certified version now includes tomcat v6.0.20. Feel free to download it from our Downloads section; also, check out the update to Lucidworks for Lucene, out last week (see blog post).

The updated LucidWorks for Solr v1.3_01 change log

  • Solrworks.sh script now use provided jvm
  • Fixed a bug with…

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Announcement: bugfix release versions for LucidWorks

We’re happy to announce the availability of updated versions of LucidWorks for Lucene and LucidWorks for Solr

LucidWorks for Solr v1.3_01 and LucidWorks for Lucene v2.4.1 are minor update and bugfix releases, incorporating the feedback from many of our users who have downloaded and using it to power their search applications. LucidWorks releases were updated to use the latest release versions of Apache Lucene and Luke, have better windows support, fixed an issue in the deployment…

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