Lucid Imagination: Open source competition in enterprise search
A San Mateo, Calif. startup called Lucid Imagination is launching today with the goal of supporting (and making money from) Apache Lucene and Solr, open source search products that power high-profile websites like Netflix and Ticketmaster.
The “enterprise search” market, which covers both web site search software and tools for internal search within a business, has some big players — like Autonomy, Microsoft-owned Fast, and search’s 800-pound gorilla, Google. But Lucene (the search library) and Solr… Continue Reading