Open Source Analog to Microsoft's Index Server?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday July 7, 2002 @01:01AM from the anything-but-microsoft dept.

An Anonymous Coward asks: "I have been tasked by my noble employer to find a better way accessing the 4,000 odd management documents and procedures we have. Currently MS Index Server is being used to provide a fairly good searching system. Index Server (for those that don't know) trawls through files and indexes their content.. ASP is then used to search the resulting database. My question is, there has to be a way to do this with nice open source software? Does anyone know of any competitors to index server that can index microsoft office documents? Thanks!" Might not HT://dig be a good foundation on which to build such a system?

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Ironic by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-07 02:30 · Score: 5, Insightful

I realize this is a little extreme, but what the heck:

Imagine if the poster's company didn't have all their documents in a proprietary format. They would have plenty of other indexing programs available to them.

And think, if that gigantic percentage of businesses didn't have their information trapped in a proprietary information format, there'd be even MORE solutions in the marketplace to choose from.

When you don't come up with a cheaper and quicker solution, be sure to let your boss know it has just a little something to do with a proprietary format on a proprietary platform sold by a monopolist.

Happy Sunday!