New Open Source Search Vendor
December 5, 2008
Hans-Christian Brockmann, founder of brox, an open source search and content processing company, reveals his vision for his company here. Mr. Brockmann wants to provide organizations with an alternative to proprietary search systems. In an exclusive interview with ArnoldIT.com, a management consulting firm founded by Stephen E. Arnold, Mr. Brockmann said:
Having spent 10 years catering to enterprise customers, we are very much aware of the strategic and political aspects of deploying IT-infrastructures to large organizations. Our project SMILA (SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture) surely can be considered an infrastructure project which embraces open source search within it. Open source solutions are being absorbed in the enterprise, as evidenced by Lucene interest.
The statistical significance of the 180,000 Lucene projects is it underscores the sheer amount of “do it yourself” projects out there, actually massively more than there are professional commercial search implementations.
We want to provide these “do it yourself” search projects with the tools they all are missing..
Having spent 10 years catering to enterprise customers, we are very much aware of the strategic and political aspects of deploying IT-infrastructures to large organizations. Our project SMILA (SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture) surely can be considered an infrastructure project which embraces open source search within it. Open source solutions are being absorbed in the enterprise, as evidenced by Lucene interest. The statistical significance of the 180,000 Lucene projects is it underscores the sheer amount of “do it yourself” projects out there, actually massively more than there are professional commercial search implementations. We want to provide these “do it yourself” search projects with the tools they all are missing.Having spent 10 years catering to enterprise customers, we are very much aware of the strategic and political aspects of deploying IT-infrastructures to large organizations. Our project SMILA (SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture) surely can be considered an infrastructure project which embraces open source search within it. Open source solutions are being absorbed in the enterprise, as evidenced by Lucene interest.
Mr. Brockmann’s estimate of the number of Lucene installations is one of the first ArnoldIT.com has been able to obtain.
Mr. Brockmann added:
Putting in the plumbing for the next generation of semantic applications is something every organization will have to do in order to remain competitive. In the course of this they will more or less all stumble across the same issues. To name a few: Security, scalability, connectivity, longevity and of course, maintenance and support for such a large infrastructure. We suggest it is best to share the cost of implementing and maintaining the infrastructure – which is not part of the strategic competencies of any company – on a shared basis. If you look at the top 1000 companies globally and ask them to deliver a list of application software they are using,the lists will be almost identical. The breadth and depth of use of certain products may be different, but basically the tools are similar.
More information about brox, the company Mr. Brockmann founded is here. You can read the full text of the interview here.
Stephen Arnold, December 5, 2008
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