A couple years ago I was told we were going to be adding tons of new docs to Search and we needed to do so low-cost. Only problem, our search vendor licensed their product by the document, making the low-cost goal impossible.
I had seen Solr mentioned in the footnote of a book somewhere and thought maybe it was worth looking into. What I didn't realize is that switching to Solr would mean better performance, cheaper hardware, easier configuration and a lot more flexibility. Better yet, it turned out we wouldn't lose functionality with the switch. I just needed to apply a few patches. But then there were just a few little things I couldn't find a patch for, so I subscribed to the dev-list and started doing what I could. All I can say is working on open source is so much better than calling the vendor and having them say "nope, it can't do that. But we can file a feature request for you." The work you all do on this project is truly amazing. Thank you for letting me have a little bigger part in it as well. James Dyer E-Commerce Systems Ingram Content Group (615) 213-4311 -----Original Message----- From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsing...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 7:08 AM To: dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Welcome James Dyer I'm pleased to announce the PMC has elected James Dyer to be a committer on the project and he has agreed to join. Welcome aboard, James! -Grant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
