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Lucid Imagination sets out to become the commercial entity behind Apache Lucene and grow its enterprise market share

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News out today from Lucid Imagination’s commercial offerings around the Apache Lucene portfolio:

Our commercial offering includes support, training, consulting services and value-added software for enterprises using Lucene- and Solr-based search solutions.

As many of you know, Apache Lucene’s project is widely used in enterprise search products. Solr is a subproject of the Lucene top-level project. Think of Lucene as the library, and Solr as a higher-level abstraction.

Lucid’s president and CEO, Eric Gries, quotes a few figures regarding Lucene/Solr:

• Among top 15 open source projects
• One of top 5 Apache projects
• Installation at over 4,000 companies
• Over 6,000 downloads per day
• Playing in a $1.8 billion market growing at a 28 percent CAGR

Companies like Netflix and Ticketmaster utilize Lucene/Solr. As Lucid’s CEO highlighted to me, these companies live and die by the quality of their search results. …