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The Case for Open Source Search in the Enterprise This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Friday, October 29, 2010

As enterprises change, so must the methods for organizing our mountains of searchable data.

More and more, open source search looks to be a viable alternative for organizing unstructured data in the enterprise. The open source community believes it has advantages in scalability, flexibility and speed over enterprise-specific behemoths like Autonomy and Microsoft. But more importantly the functionality, cost structure and support services of open source are better adapted to changing enterprise requirements.

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