On 11/29/05, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To add, and you are right, I haven't used verity in CF7 - I avoid it like
> the plague (plus we are tied into using FAST ESP methinks).
>
> Does Verity in CF7 still lock users out of a collection/search when it
> indexes?   If it does, that alone indicates a poor search tool.

Afaik no. In the past you had to go lock heavy w/ Verity. You no
longer need to do that.

> Don't get me wrong, like I said, Verity is great tool for small sites and
> for CF bods to point it to location and say make it searchable, but it is in
> no way an enterprise level tool anymore.
>
> On the cuff of me calling it crap, what can you say that Verity offers me
> which would change my mind (in comparison to other tools such as Google,
> FAST etc?)  I would wager not that much if any.

To be honest I don't know. I haven't used either of them. As I said,
they may certainly be better, even loads better, but Verity/CF is free
and included in the product, so before spending more money, or
integrating something else like Lucene, one should take a look.

-Ray

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