SAN MATEO, Calif., June 30, 2009 — Lucid Imagination, a commercial company dedicated to supporting open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies, and ISYS Search Software, a global supplier of information access and discovery solutions for mining intelligence and corporate knowledge, today announced a strategic partnership. The agreement enables Lucid Imagination to provide enterprise-class solutions that combine its core Lucene and Solr expertise with the ISYS File Readers document filtering technology. With the exponential growth in unstructured data in organizations today, such as various forms of documents, informal notes, emails, and wikis, document filters are critical components of enterprise search solutions, allowing users to index a wide range of file formats and content for business-critical applications. ISYS File Readers deliver this capability and will further contribute to the strength of Lucene/Solr as a compelling alternative to proprietary search solutions. “The ability to use ISYS’ document filter technology offers a significant advantage to organizations considering open source Lucene/Solr to

build reliable and scalable enterprise search solutions,” said Eric Gries, CEO of Lucid Imagination. “Search is a mission critical application for many organizations. The combination of ISYS File Readers and Lucene/Solr offers a best of breed solution for enterprises that do not want to be held back by lack of functionality and the high costs associated with proprietary search products from infrastructure and platform vendors.” More than 4,000 organizations worldwide are already using the technology in a wide range of applications and markets. With the enhancements made over the past three years, Lucene/Solr has emerged as a compelling alternative to proprietary licensed search and discovery software products. In addition to lower TCO, the flexibility of the architecture allows enterprises to develop highly sophisticated purpose-built search solutions to address their unique business challenges. “The Lucid Imagination team has some of the most well-known committers to the…

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Lucid and ISYS Partner on Document Search Technology