[TriLUG] Internal Search Engines/Appliances

[Matt Pusateri]

Well Corp is entirely a windows shop. Unfortunately a brain dead one :( 
So I'm sure they'll be upgrading our sharepoint server. The only issue I 
have is we *are* a multi-platform company, but yet we deploy so much 
stuff that works for crap with *nix. Fortunately I'm a *nix guy and 
we've deployed a bunch of stuff out of Raleigh that is OpenSource. 
What's funny is that all our products have Linux/Open source, yet your 
developers in NJ all use Windows. Developers in Raleigh, and Germany all 
use Linux. I'm really a best tool for the job guy, but I just hate 
vendor lock in. Damnit we have standards for a reason, Use Them!, Don't 
write your own half bastardized version of something that only works 
with your other products. That's really what gripes me :( Anyways thanks 
for your input. When I get closer to doing product evaluations, I may 
ping you again.

Thanks,

Matt

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> As of the 4.0 release of the code, users will be "prompted" to
> authenticate, unless you're going to write your own code for a
> connector. 
>
> This is supposed to be change in the 5.0 code, but since I do not have
> it ...I cannot vouch for that functionality yet.
>
> It looks like we'll most likely use SharePoint 2007, as it also has a
> couple of other "cool" features (before I get the axe for being Windows
> -- understand I'm working for *.mil, and open source / *.nix is NOT an
> option). You're able to scan to document libraries, workflow looks uber,
> and its search works for what we want to use it for. You're also able to
> search Exchange Public folders as well. 
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Matt Pusateri
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:00 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Internal Search Engines/Appliances
>
> OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
>   
>> Are you also working with Windows authentication or clustered 
>> filesystems?
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Windows Auth yes, clustered file systems no
>