OSC integrated with our team for a critical project, and it was certainly one of the most successful projects ever here. Their introduction of Agile and Scrum methodologies had a lasting effect on our development team and allowed the business real-time visibility.

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OSC Principal Eric Pugh co-authored the book Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server; the updated release of the book is due out in April, 2011.

5% of all book sales go to the Apache Software Foundation; as a result, in partnership with Packt Publishing, we are one of the largest contributors to the Foundation.

News

  • OpenSource Connections Adds Site Search Analytics Service

    At OpenSource Connections, we strongly believe that search is not simply a matter of installing a search engine, putting in a search box, and forgetting about it. Yet, that’s what we find most site owners do, and when they do that, they leave the door open to customer dissatisfaction and lost revenue opportunities. That’s why
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  • Scott Stults Discusses Value of Solr Certification Exam

    OSC’s Scott Stults and Michael Herndon are currently at Lucene Revolution and Scott was interviewed by CMSWire about the value of getting a Solr certification. You can watch his interview at the CMSWire coverage of day 1 of Lucene Revolution. OSC principal Eric Pugh took part in developing the Solr certification test with Lucid Imagination.
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  • Jason Hull Featured Discussing Solr and OpenSource Connections on Veterans Affairs Blog

    Jason Hull discusses OpenSource Connections’ participation in the National Veteran Small Business Conference and how their move to focus primarily on Solr affects the business on the latest VAntage Blog of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. You can read the article here.

Blog

  • Indexing Chinese in Solr

    Recently, we had a project where we helped a client index a corpus of Chinese language documents in Solr. We have asked Dan Funk, a committer to Project Blacklight to provide a guest blog post for us on the details of how to approach indexing Chinese, particularly when you are a non-speaker. Take it away,
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  • Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server Published

    We are pleased to announce that Eric Pugh and David Smiley have published the second Solr book in publication, Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server. It is an update to the blockbuster Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server, and is available at Packt Publishing. “This is an important update and covers all of the features that
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  • You Don’t Know Zipf About Your Landing Pages

    Unless you have a very well-known brand where people type your URL to visit your site, then chances are that most of your traffic comes from an external search engine such as Google, Bing, or Yahoo. A quick analysis can tell you that, relative to the total number of keywords visitors use to get to
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