The Lucene.Net project serves as the port of the Lucene search engine library.   In recent news it has left the incubator and become a top-level project.  The project is now labeled as healthy and the project’s resources will move to the main apache.org site.  Read the full report in, “Lucene.Net becomes top-level project at Apache.”

After announcing the project’s promotion, the author then says:

Lucene.Net began as an independent project creating a line-by-line port of the Java-based Lucene project. Eventually, it entered the Apache Incubator in April 2006 and graduated as a sub-project of Lucene in October 2009. But then it ran into difficulty when the original leads stopped maintaining it; development stagnated in 2010 and forks appeared outside the Apache project.

For more information, customer support, and community resources about Apache Lucene, consult LucidWorks.  A long-time open source search industry leader, their LucidWorks Search option is built on top of Lucene and Solr and can be deployed on-site or in the Cloud.  Additionally, their Lucene/Solr support provides enterprise-grade technical support based on your organization’s individual needs.

Open source is definitely making steady and promising gains especially in the world of enterprise.  And for organizations that cannot support a large developer staff, offerings like those by LucidWorks can bring efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and user satisfaction without additional hassle.

Emily Rae Aldridge, September 7, 2012

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