Hello all, Richard here - been lurking for a while, first post. Seb, If you only have a few users to deal with then I concur with the Rev, Google Desktop is a great solution; it's simple and it will meet your users needs. There are alternatives, I actually use one called Copernic Desktop myself (although mostly for mail) - it works for me.
If you are looking for something for more than a handful of users, then I'd seriously consider spending $$ on a Google mini appliance. They are about $6k for two years, which includes maintenance and support (and you get to keep the box at the end). In my experience Google really do have the indexing and ranking algorithms that the rest of us only dream of; anything else I have tried sadly doesn't compare. Cheers - rich On 14 May, 07:10, 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? > > cheers, seb > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs:http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
