Top Open Source Projects Omit Lucene/Solr

December 29, 2011

Linux Today seems to have left a couple of things out if its list, “The 10 Most Important Open Source Projects of 2011.” Um, aren’t Lucene and Solr from Apache important? Neither of them made the cut. Writer Joe ‘Zonker’ admits that, to get the list down to ten, he had to leave out some key candidates. The article states:

So what do I mean by ‘important,’ anyway? Clearly, it’s not just projects that are widely used. That list would be just too long to even contemplate. . . .So to judge importance, I looked at projects that are influential, gaining in popularity, and/or technical standouts in new areas. In other words, projects that are even more noteworthy than the other noteworthy projects. This means that many projects that are crucial didn’t make the list.

Topping the list is Apache’s Hadoop, which surged this year. The other projects that made the cut are Git; Cassandra; LibreOffice; OpenStack; Nginx; jQuery; Node.js; Puppet; and, of course, Linux itself. See the write up for the reasoning behind each choice.

Maybe it is just us, but we still think Lucene and Solr should have been invited to the party. Maybe next year? With azure chip consultants dissing Autonomy and ignoring open source except for bleats for someone to help explain the mysteries of “community software”, let’s show some love for Lucene and Solr. Give it up.

Cynthia Murrell, December 29, 2011

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