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

[Mick Pollard <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 07:10:01 +1000
Sebastian Spiess <sebastian.spiess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
Sounds like a document management system is what you might be better off with. This allows for searching of documents complete with an ACL system to protect private documents.
Have you had a look at http://www.knowledgetree.com/. 
This http://bitnami.org/stack/knowledgetree is a simple way of installing it all. I find Bitnami stacks are great for evaluating a package before deploying it the traditional way.

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