What I’ve been up to lately: Lucid Imagination
Well, the cat is out of the bag. In case you haven’t heard, a few Lucene/Solr/Mahout committers (Erik Hatcher and Yonik Seeley) and I have teamed up with some other long time search veterans (Marc Krellenstein from Northern Light and former CTO of Reed Elsevier, amongst others) to build a company around providing product, support and other services related to the Lucene family of technologies. Obviously, this is something I am quite excited about and have thought about for a long time. Both Lucene and Solr are quite robust and ready for the enterprise in a lot of ways, but need that extra push a company can give to make them polished. Our goals are to build a best of breed product (Lucid Focus™)based on them and enrich the open source community as well. Another exciting thing is we plan to fully support both our product AND the open source versions of Lucene and Solr.
At any rate, enough of the marketing, if you’re interested in trying our beta or talking support, drop us an email at the address on our site.
