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Over due by several years, Wrox just published a book about Microsoft Enterprise Search, including the different FAST flavours. Bravo!

You can ask how all the users of FAST technology could have managed for so many years without some public source of learning the products. Up until now FAST/MS and their partners have been the sole source of learning FAST Search [1]. Now, we’re part of that eco-system and may have profited on the lack of material available, but that’s another story. (more…)

Welcome to join Cominvent and FindWise in a breakfast seminar in Oslo May 5th, with the topic “Cost effective and flexible search solutions based on open source”.

The seminar is at Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel in Oslo, between 8-10am wednesday May 5th.

Join us for a discussion around these topics:

• What is open source and how does it affect search technology?
• How does Solr/Lucene really work?
• What alternatives are there within Solr/Lucene?

We’ll also present a few customer cases to highlight successful implementation of open source enterprise search.

See the attached invitation (PDF, Norwegian) for more.

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You have a search solution already. Are you satisfied? Have your needs changed? How long since you evaluated alternatives?

Perhaps it’s time for a faster, bigger, more feature rich, more extensible or more affordable search engine? A migration requires good and structured planning and deep knowledge of the existing solution as well as the target technology.

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In a recent blog post by CTO Bjørn Olstad, referenced by CNet, Beyond Search and Norwegian digi.no today, FAST announces that ESP 5.3 is the last version of their Enterprise Search Platform to run on Linux or Unix.

As a part of that planning process, we have decided that in order to deliver more innovation per release in the future, the 2010 products will be the last to include a search core that runs on Linux and UNIX.

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Cominvent is the first company in Scandinavia to offer professional classroom training for the Open Source search engine Apache Solr. Last week we conducted a training in Denmark, and we plan for a regular schedule in Oslo and on-demand elsewhere in Europe.

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