It's been a very busy few months for events - so busy that it's quite a relief to be back in the office! Back in late November I travelled to Vienna to speak at the FIBEP World Media Intelligence Congress with our client Infomedia about how we've helped them to migrate their media monitoring platform from the elderly, unsupported and hard to scale Read more
I'll be speaking at several events over the next few weeks, in the UK and abroad. On the 19th of November I'll be at the FIBEP World Media Intelligence Congress in Vienna, to talk about how we helped our client Infomedia migrate from a closed-source search engine (Autonomy IDOL and Verity) to a new platform based on Apache Lucene/Solr<...
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We're travelling a bit over the next few weeks to visit and speak at various events. This weekend Alan Woodward is at Berlin Buzzwords, a hacker-focused conference with a programme full of search talks. He's not speaking this year, but if you want to talk about Lucene, Solr or our own Luwak stored search library and the Read more
oOpen Source describes software where the source code is freely available.
Common examples of Open Source software projects include the Linux operating system, the Mozilla Firefox web browser, a powerful alternative to Microsoft Office called Libre Office and indeed many of the programs that run the Internet.
In practical terms Open Source software has a different Read more
Flax is highly active in the open source search community, running and presenting at events, contributing to open source projects and publishing our own software as open source.
Flax crafts custom search solutions for clients in a wide range of sectors including biotechnology, e-commerce, government, legal, news and media and recruitment.
I spent a day last week at a new event from UNICOM, a conference on Real-Time Analytics. Mike Ferguson chaired the event and was kind enough to spend time with me over lunch exploring how search software might fit into the mix, something that has been on my mind since hearing about the Unified Log<...
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We're speaking at a couple of events soon: if you're in London and interested in Apache Lucene/Solr we're also planning another London User Group Meetup soon.
Firstly my colleague Alan Woodward is speaking with Martin Kleppman at FOSDEM in Brussels (31st January-1st February) on Read more
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Flax crafts custom search solutions for clients in a wide range of sectors including biotechnology, e-commerce, government, legal, news and media and recruitment.
