On 12. jan. 2010, at 16.27, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > I think it's good to link to outside publications, and it doesn't seem like a > problem to me that it's a related product. News snippets linking to magazine > articles (especially positive reviews early on) are common fare on project > webpages.
I'm positive to pointing to commercial stuff from the site and wiki, that's gonna benefit the overall Lucene community. But why front page, and why as an "ad" with an image? A more neutral, still prominent placement would be on a new "Commercial" page linked to from the left menu. Although it's an excellent ref.guide, it clearly is a marketing instrument for Lucid, one out of a growing number of competitors in this field. There will be a growing need for more references to other commercial distros, plugins, documentation and more, and such stuff should have a vendor neutral home. +1 for a text link from a new "Commercial" page. -1 for image ad on front page -- (unless the ad is paid and tagged as an ad) -- Jan Høydahl - search architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com
