Right. LWE binaries are distributed for free, and may be used for non-production purposes. For a production deployment, separate subscriptions are required. It is effectively the same as requiring payment for a production deployment license bundled with a support subscription.
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Adam Estrada <estrada.adam.gro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe that the Lucid Works distro for Solr is free and as you mentioned > they only appear to sell their services for it. I have used that version for > several demos because it does seem to have all the bells and whistles already > included and it's super easy to set up. The only downside in my case is that > they are still on the official release version 1.4.1 which has an older > version of PDFBox that doesn't parse PDF's generated from newer adobe > software. Thanks Adobe ;-) It's easy enough to just rebuild Tika, PDFBox, > FontBox, etc. and swap them out...If you want spatial support, you can use > the plugin from the Spatial Solr project out of the Netherlands which is > designed to support 1.4.1 and from what I can tell seems to work pretty well. > > Anyway, when 4.0 is released, hopefully with the extended spatial support > from projects like SIS and JTS, I hope to see the office distro version > change from Lucid. > > Thanks for all hard work the Lucid Team has provided over the years! > > Adam > > On Feb 12, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Andy wrote: > >> Now I'm confused. >> >> In http://www.lucidimagination.com/lwe/subscriptions-and-pricing, the price >> of LucidWorks Enterprise Software is stated as "FREE". I thought the price >> for "Production" was for the support service, not for the software. >> >> But you seem to be saying that 'LucidWorks Enterprise' is a separate >> software that isn't free. Did I misunderstand? >> >> --- On Sat, 2/12/11, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> From: Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> >>> Subject: Re: Difference between Solr and Lucidworks distribution >>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org, markus.jel...@openindex.io >>> Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011, 8:10 PM >>> There are two distributions. >>> >>> The company is Lucid Imagination. 'Lucidworks for Solr' is >>> the >>> certified distribution of Solr 1.4.1, with several >>> enhancements. >>> >>> Markus refers to 'LucidWorks Enterprise', which is LWE. >>> This is a >>> separate app with tools and a REST API for managing a Solr >>> instance. >>> >>> Lance Norskog >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Markus Jelsma >>> <markus.jel...@openindex.io> >>> wrote: >>>> It is not free for production environments. >>>> http://www.lucidimagination.com/lwe/subscriptions-and-pricing >>>> >>>> On Friday 11 February 2011 17:31:22 Greg Georges >>> wrote: >>>>> Hello all, >>>>> >>>>> I just started watching the webinars from >>> Lucidworks, and they mention >>>>> their distribution which has an installer, etc.. >>> Is there any other >>>>> differences? Is it a good idea to use this free >>> distribution? >>>>> >>>>> Greg >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex >>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17 >>>> 050-8536620 / 06-50258350 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Lance Norskog >>> goks...@gmail.com >>> >> >> >> > > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
