Hi,
I hope this message is OK for this list.
I'm looking into search solutions for an intranet site built with Drupal.
Eventually we'd like to scale to enterprise search, which would include the
Drupal site, a document repository, and Jive SBS (collaboration software).
I'm interested in Lucene/Solr because of its scalability, faceted search and
optimization features, and because it is free. Our problem is that we are a
non-profit organization with only three very busy programmers/sys admins
supporting our employees around the world.
To help me argue for Solr in terms of total cost, I'm hoping that members of
this list can share their insights about the following:
* About how many hours of programming did it take you to set up your
instance of Lucene/Solr (not counting time spent on optimization)?
* Are there any disadvantages of going with a certified distribution rather
than the standard distribution?
Thanks and best regards,
Jeff
Jeff Crump
jcr...@hq.mercycorps.org
