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At 07:52 PM 11/5/98 -0600, len bullard wrote: >This is an interesting thread and relevant to my current work which >is unfortunatly, not in XML, but in relational implementations. >However, can someone direct me to any sites which provide source >examples of full text retrieval engines? Such sites will be rather small, due to a little problem in the retrieval business, namely nobody has ever made serious money at it. Five years ago, I would have said the leading vendors were Fulcrum, Verity, PLS, Open Text, and IDI/Basis. Fulcrum barely dodged bankruptcy and ended up being swallowed by PC Docs, a low-end document management company. Verity is the only one still soldiering on, having burned through $30M in venture cap and a large part of their IPO bucks, are actually showing some signs of small amounts of black ink. PLS staggered (mostly) into the arms of AOL. Open Text retreated from search into document management, and bought IDI. Lesson: there's not much juice in that business. XML might cheer things up a bit, you never know. There are any number of decent free search engines you can run with either Apache or NT servers... If you're doing relational search, most relational vendors (Oracle, Informix, etc) have some sort of full-text add-on that usually works OK. -Tim xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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