On Wed, 14 May 2008 07:10:01 +1000 Sebastian Spiess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > > 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? > Sounds like a document management system is what you might be better off with. This allows for searching of documents complete with an ACL system to protect private documents. Have you had a look at http://www.knowledgetree.com/. This http://bitnami.org/stack/knowledgetree is a simple way of installing it all. I find Bitnami stacks are great for evaluating a package before deploying it the traditional way. -- Regards Mick Pollard ( lunix ) ------------------------------------------------ BOFH Excuse of the day: Asynchronous Memory Expiry
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