Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)

["Amos Shapira" <amos.shapira@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Sebastian Spiess <
sebastian.spiess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi all,
>
> I know this is not a 100% linux related question but it's open source baby
> :-)
>
> On our company network we have a daily growing number of documents in lots
> of folders and stuff. Most of it is organised in project folders and has
> reoccurring folder structures and file names.
>
> We are working hard on giving it more and clearer structure but sometimes
> it is still hard to find some files.
>
> I want to suggest to install a search engine which will index our existing
> files so that employees can crawl quickly though projects history.
>
> I've heard of the various desktop search engines like beagle, tracker and
> google desktop but are there open source engines which can be run on a
> server so that many can connect to it and search?
>
> Sadly we are relying on MS office (2001), AutoCAD (R16 to 2008) and other
> proprietary software in our daily work so those kind of files would need to
> be indexed.
>
>
> Does anyone has a idea, something I could investigate further? a software
> name?


I have absolutely no experience with it, but just last night I read about
OpenKM (http://www.openkm.org/) and it sounds like something which might fit
the bill. I'd try it for our company too if/when I get time.

I'd be interested to hear what you come up with as we can use something like
this too.

Cheers,

--Amos