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Open source Lucene threatens Microsoft, Google enterprise search. Interest in Lucene and Solr is skyrocketing, as measured by job postings.

Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source incline. Why is the GPL still considered the bottom of the open source incline, and not, say, the Apache license?

Firefox 3.5's first vulnerability self-inflicted. The bug could be used to hijack a machine running the company's newest browser.

Embedded Linux achieves one-second boot time. MontaVista Software announced and showed a dashboard application going from cold boot to operational in one second flat.

Boxee will blow you away. In many ways, the Boxee media center platform is much better than the original XBMC 9.04 RC.



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An open source energy future? Energy Secretary Stephen Chu has seen our energy future and says it?s open source.

Internet Explorer market share plummeting--or is it? Did it drop more precipitously in June than people think?

Ultimate Firefox productivity tips, for geeks. Using keywords, and keyboard shortcuts.

Apple wary of Ogg Theora: No agreement yet on HTML 5 video standard. Firefox 3.5 and Chrome already support the new video tag of the HTML 5 specification.

A comparison of open source search engines. Here are benchmark tests for Lucene, Xapian, zettair, sqlite, and sphinx.



Acquia, Which Provides Commercial Drupal Support, Delivers Search

We've covered Acquia, which delivers commercial support for the powerful Drupal content management system a number of times. Acquia also delivers its own distribution of Drupal, and the company's co-founder (and also founder of Drupal) Dries Buytaert has now announced that the company has come out of beta testing with its version of Acquia Search. It's available at no cost as part of every Acquia Network subscription. If you're looking for a free, open source tool to run a web site, and need solid search and inexpensive support, the one-two punch that Drupal and Acquia offer may be just right for you.?


In-Q-Tel, the CIA's Investment Arm, Invests in Lucid Imagination

Back in January, we wrote about the launch of Lucid Imagination, a Massachussetts-based startup focused on support and services for open source search technologies Apache Lucene and Solr. ?The company has $6 million from a Series A funding round led by Granite Ventures and Walden International, and focuses on services and support for developers and enterprises using Lucene and Solr. Today, the company has announced a strategic investment from In-Q-Tel, which invests in technology solutions for the CIA and other factions of the U.S. Intelligence Community. It looks like Lucene and Solr search technologies will be used by 18 intelligence organizations sifting through masses of data.


Lucid Imagination Launches, With Support for Lucene and Solr Search

Lucid Imagination, a Massachussetts-based startup focused on support and services for open source search technologies Apache Lucene and Solr, has announced that it has officially launched. The company was one of only a tiny handful of open source companies to obtain significant venture capital funding in the fourth quarter of last year.? The company collected $6 million from a $7.5 million Series A funding round led by Granite Ventures and Walden International. It will focus on both developers and organizations using Lucene and Solr.


LinkedIn and MySpace Bet On Lucene Open Source Search

As Matt Asay reports, the LinkedIn social network has just upgraded its people search features, based on the open source search project Lucene. And, as Ars Technica discussed in June, MySpace recently updated its search features using Lucene as well --including making contributions to Lucene. OStatic's own search features are powered by Lucene, and many leaders of web sites, blogs and web applications should look into this extremely powerful open source information retrieval engine.


Census Reveals the Top 20 Open Source Packages

The other day we reported findings from the Open Source Census--a global effort to track the number of installations of open source packages on computers. Among the top-level findings were that open source is seeing broad adoption in Europe and in finance. The census has also made available a list of the top 20 open source packages found in its scans of thousands of computers. Here are the packages that made the top 20 list.