Hi, I was thinking about using GSA Connector infrastructure with Nutch or Solr some time ago because we were considering MS SharePoint search functionality alternatives incuding GSA.
IMHO this is something that makes sense and I think that open source tools can beat production alternatives in many ways but also I can see some issues: - first and the most difficult: try to talk to your management about relpacing MS SharePoint or GSA with open source. This conversation can be very difficult. - GSA connectors are buggy... try listing through Google group forums (may be this got better by now). - I found it is very hard to rely on open source when it comes to parsing of Microsoft documents in your net (word, excel, power point). It can handle 98% or 99% all your document but not 100% (correct me if I am wrong please). It should be possible to include some MS document server into the loop but this make the thing more complicated and requires non-open source components. Regards, Lukas On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:21 PM, markharw00d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > It may be a good summer of code project if someone wanted to implement >> reading and writing data via the GSA feed interface... >> > > Do you mean the Google Summer Of Code initiative? I can't imagine Google > would be keen to support a project whose goal was to provide an open-source, > drop-in replacement for one of their commercial products :) > > > I can't believe this idea received no replies! >>> >> > I guess it's just not an itch anyone here feels a particular need to > scratch right now - and that is always what is need to get the ball > rolling. > > Maybe another avenue is to approach the commercial providers who have > already contributed GSA connectors and ask them to consider writing a > Solr-based consumer endpoint based on the GSA connector protocol. They may > be commercially incentivised to do this and can then claim their products > can hook up to either GSA or open-source Solr using the same interface. > > Cheers > Mark > > > > -- http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/
