Was that your intent, or is the business interest in Lucene / Solr naturally surfacing from the community?
It was our intent to provide both technology sessions and higher-level business and strategic content. Zack Urlocker’s session on open source software disruption was very highly rated in fact. With The Guardian, Stephen Dunn provided the business context for their Open Platform in a keynote session, then Graham Tackley did a more detailed technical session later in the day on their architecture and use of Solr later in the day. This tag-team approach was very effective. Search vendors are struggling. I have reported about the problems at Entopia, Delphes, and other companies. When the economy improves, will those looking for search turn from open source and embrace commercial solutions? No, the horse is now out of the barn. Developers have seen the power and flexibility of Lucene/Solr – and the word is out that they can build great search solutions with open source enterprise search. Red Hat users are not going to move back to Solaris or MVS. No one is going to buy Hummers again. Searc
