On 22/6/01 9:05 pm, "Paul Browning" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> --On 20 June 2001 12:22 +0100 Tony McDonald <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Quick question:
>>
>> Anyone know of something that we can install on Solaris that will index
>> word, excel, powerpoint, text and pdf documents (located on the server)
>> and provide a nice front end that will respond to queries such as;
>>
>> "who was that person interested in personal academic records from
>> birmingham?"
>
> Tone:
>
> I do, but you probably can't afford it (given you've bought into SAP
> already .... ;-]).
Damn - you've given all our secrets away now!
> Autonomy does this sort of thing as do
> components in the Verity portfolio.
>
Helen Sargan suggested this as well (thanks Helen) - you're right. We can't
afford it unfortunately :(
We are also looking at something called KMS from Knowledge Management
Software - needs a windows box though, so that doesn't help massively.
> Moving five or six orders of pricing magnitude in the other
> direction, things like
>
> http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/DocumentLibrary
>
It looks *very* nice actually. As you know, we tend to 'roll our own' here
:) and I'm also thinking that rolling that product into the CMF (Content
Management Framework - a Zope based Portal system) is the way to go for us.
We intend to do a lot of redevelopment over the summer so perhaps this has
come at an opportune time...
> look rather tasty. Not tried it yet though.
>
> Paul
Cheers for that, enjoy Belfast and be nice to the Newcastle contingent when
you see them! :)
Tone.
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Dr Tony McDonald, Assistant Director, FMCC, http://www.fmcc.org.uk/
The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 243 6140
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