On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Sebastian Spiess < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi all, > > I know this is not a 100% linux related question but it's open source baby > :-) > > On our company network we have a daily growing number of documents in lots > of folders and stuff. Most of it is organised in project folders and has > reoccurring folder structures and file names. > > We are working hard on giving it more and clearer structure but sometimes > it is still hard to find some files. > > I want to suggest to install a search engine which will index our existing > files so that employees can crawl quickly though projects history. > > I've heard of the various desktop search engines like beagle, tracker and > google desktop but are there open source engines which can be run on a > server so that many can connect to it and search? > > Sadly we are relying on MS office (2001), AutoCAD (R16 to 2008) and other > proprietary software in our daily work so those kind of files would need to > be indexed. > > > Does anyone has a idea, something I could investigate further? a software > name? I have absolutely no experience with it, but just last night I read about OpenKM (http://www.openkm.org/) and it sounds like something which might fit the bill. I'd try it for our company too if/when I get time. I'd be interested to hear what you come up with as we can use something like this too. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
