I believe that the Lucid Works distro for Solr is free and as you mentioned they only appear to sell their services for it. I have used that version for several demos because it does seem to have all the bells and whistles already included and it's super easy to set up. The only downside in my case is that they are still on the official release version 1.4.1 which has an older version of PDFBox that doesn't parse PDF's generated from newer adobe software. Thanks Adobe ;-) It's easy enough to just rebuild Tika, PDFBox, FontBox, etc. and swap them out...If you want spatial support, you can use the plugin from the Spatial Solr project out of the Netherlands which is designed to support 1.4.1 and from what I can tell seems to work pretty well.
Anyway, when 4.0 is released, hopefully with the extended spatial support from projects like SIS and JTS, I hope to see the office distro version change from Lucid. Thanks for all hard work the Lucid Team has provided over the years! Adam On Feb 12, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Andy wrote: > Now I'm confused. > > In http://www.lucidimagination.com/lwe/subscriptions-and-pricing, the price > of LucidWorks Enterprise Software is stated as "FREE". I thought the price > for "Production" was for the support service, not for the software. > > But you seem to be saying that 'LucidWorks Enterprise' is a separate software > that isn't free. Did I misunderstand? > > --- On Sat, 2/12/11, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: Difference between Solr and Lucidworks distribution >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org, markus.jel...@openindex.io >> Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011, 8:10 PM >> There are two distributions. >> >> The company is Lucid Imagination. 'Lucidworks for Solr' is >> the >> certified distribution of Solr 1.4.1, with several >> enhancements. >> >> Markus refers to 'LucidWorks Enterprise', which is LWE. >> This is a >> separate app with tools and a REST API for managing a Solr >> instance. >> >> Lance Norskog >> >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Markus Jelsma >> <markus.jel...@openindex.io> >> wrote: >>> It is not free for production environments. >>> http://www.lucidimagination.com/lwe/subscriptions-and-pricing >>> >>> On Friday 11 February 2011 17:31:22 Greg Georges >> wrote: >>>> Hello all, >>>> >>>> I just started watching the webinars from >> Lucidworks, and they mention >>>> their distribution which has an installer, etc.. >> Is there any other >>>> differences? Is it a good idea to use this free >> distribution? >>>> >>>> Greg >>> >>> -- >>> Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17 >>> 050-8536620 / 06-50258350 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Lance Norskog >> goks...@gmail.com >> > > >
