First it was "I18N", then "LAMP", and recently "RoR" ... and now ... Solr
has hit the big time by becoming integrated into an obfuscated and
non-intuitive acronym that pertains to a stack/suite of software...
! ! ! "LNS" ! ! !
http://www.ideaeng.com/pub/entsrch/2008/number_01/article01.html
Our final inductee into the new Enterprise Search "Tier 1" (the "half"
in "4 and 1/2") is a set of open source software based on Lucene,
including Nutch and Solr. Technically it doesn't qualify for the
classical "enterprise" status, as we define it. By rights, they should
stay on our "Tier 1.5" list. But, and this is a big one, they are
being considered, or at least discussed again and again by clients. It
happened often enough in 2007 that we have to include Lucene/Nutch/Solr
(which we'll refer to as "LNS")
Superfulous acronym jokes asside, It is pretty cool to see a reputable
Search company (is ideaeng.com a reputable search consulting company? i
don't really pay much attention to this sort of thing but i'm assuming
they must be since they have a website and they don't need to run banner
ads on it to earn money) ranking "Lucene/Nutch/Solr" as a "Tier 1"
enterprise search solution ... even if they do only count "LNS" as "half"
a product.
-Hoss (needs sleep now)
