Here's more info about it: http://www.mercury.com/us/products/performance-center/loadrunner/
I have no idea about the cost--it's my company's standard load testing tool so I'm not sure what the price is. Matt On 4/27/05, Mark Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Matt. I haven't used LoadRunner before but it sounds like a great > piece of software. Where do you buy it and is it very expensive? > > Regards, > Mark A. Knox > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Matt Woodward > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 8:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Anyone Interested in Learning About Verity? > > So far I've been extremely impressed with the speed of Verity in CFMX 7. > They did away with the non-K2 side of Verity in CF 7 so everything is K2. > They also (finally!) upgraded from Verity 2.x that was in CF through 6.1 and > are now on Verity 5.5, which is quite a step forward in both features and > performance. > > Right now we have about 10,000 documents in our main collection and the > search times are never more than about 15 milliseconds on our dev server, > which is a VMWare server so on our production servers it should hold up > really well. I'm going to be doing some load testing with LoadRunner soon > so I should be able to report on the scalability by the time the meeting > rolls around. > > I haven't used full text indexing in SQL Server in quite a while (and know > nothing about what's up with SQL Server 2005 in this regard), but there are > some really nice features in Verity that as far as I know aren't in most > RDBMS. > > The meeting location DID change. For May we're meeting in the AidMatrix > office which is inside the i2 Building at 635 and Luna. For June forward > we'll be meeting in the TEKSystems offices which is also pretty much at 635 > and Luna. I'll send out another email about this before the meeting and get > the web site updated. > > Matt > > On 4/26/05, Mark Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds really good to me Matt. We've found that in most cases we can > > leverage the power of SQL-Server to provide fast and efficient > > searches, but I'd really like to see what Verity can do in CFMX 7. In > > CFMX 6.x, it seemed to be a little bit of a resource hog and was slow. > > > > BTW, where is the next meeting going to be? Did the location change? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Mark Knox > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Matt Woodward > > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:16 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Anyone Interested in Learning About Verity? > > > > In looking ahead to the June meeting I thought I'd ask if folks would > > be interested in learning more about Verity, what's new with Verity in > > CF 7, and how you can leverage this extremely powerful tool to build > > some amazing search engines very easily. I'm in the process of > > building an entirely new search tool for i2's intranet and knowledge > > management system, so if people would be interested in this, I'd be > > happy to share what I've learned thus far, walk through my code, and show > you the end results. > > > > Even if you don't want to hear about it in a meeting, you really, > > really owe it to yourself to check out Verity if you haven't. I had > > used it a bit in the past for some very simple purposes, but after > > reading up on it, messing with it pretty extensively for the past few > > weeks, and getting some help from the experts, I'm really excited about > what all Verity can do. > > Particularly with the new features in CF 7 you'll probably be amazed > > at the power that's already running in CF and how easy it is to use. > > > > OK, enough gushing. ;-) Let me know if that sounds like a cool topic > > for June or another future meeting, and here's a couple of links to > > check out if you want to learn more: > > > > http://tinyurl.com/c879c > > http://tinyurl.com/by3an > > > > Matt > > -- > > Matt Woodward > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.mattwoodward.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm > > To subscribe: > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm > > To subscribe: > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > > > > > -- > Matt Woodward > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mattwoodward.com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm > To subscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm > To subscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > -- Matt Woodward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mattwoodward.com ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm
