Github Excitement: We Love Overhyped Open Source Vendors

January 29, 2013

I spotted an interesting article in Open Search News. The story which caught my attention is “Github Search Exposes Passwords Then Crashes.” The article, which I assume is spot on, asserts:

Github is a powerful and popular collaborative tool for open source and private development projects. It is a favorite repository of open source developers. Last week a new search infrastructure was unveiled to enable search for specific code within the millions of individual repositories. Elasticsearch powered the search infrastructure. However, the search infrastructure quickly revealed lots of private date including passwords and private ssh keys.

We have heard about a number of similar issues. Whether it is the difficulty of reaching one vendor’s technical team in Russia or the elusiveness of the Danish library’s technical team, open source search has some history.

On the other hand, when we wrote our analysis of open source search for that outstanding, reliable, and up front consulting firm IDC, we noted that one or two vendors stood out from the crowd.

Which vendor came out on top? Well, it is not the organization who seems to have contributed to the password situation. To find out whom we found the best, you will have to pay IDC a mere $3,500 to get the inside scoop. A deal at twice the price. I mean such value.

Hint: Beware the one-many band with high hopes and $10 million.

Stephen E Arnold, January 29, 2013

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.