LucidWorks
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Information technology Information access Open Source Software |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Redwood City, California, USA |
| Area served | Americas Europe |
| Key people | Paul Doscher (CEO) Grant Ingersoll (Chief Scientist) Sarath Jarugula (Product Management) Erik Hatcher (Founding Technical Team) Yonik Seeley (Founding Technical Team) |
| Products | Search Engines Support, Consulting and Training around Apache Lucene and Apache Solr LucidWorks |
| Website | http://www.lucidworks.com |
LucidWorks (formerly known as Lucid Imagination) is a Redwood City, California-based company offering commercial support, consulting, training and value-add software for open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technologies. LucidWorks is a private company founded as Lucid Imagination in 2007 and publicly launched on January 26, 2009. The company was renamed to LucidWorks on August 8, 2012.[1] The company received Series A funding from Granite Ventures and Walden International in Sept 2008; In-Q-Tel is a strategic investor.
The company follows a Professional Open Source model to target organizations evaluating or already using the Apache Lucene/Solr open source search platform for their search applications. The company also offers several free, certified distributions of Lucene and Solr, which include additional utilities, bug fixes, and performance enhancements. Apache Lucene and Solr originally established a following without commercial support; however, as the market adoption for commercially supported open source grows,[2][3] enterprise search application developers have sought similar models for these applications as well.
The LucidWorks founding technical team consisted of Marc Krellenstein, a veteran in the enterprise search industry and several key contributors and committers to the Lucene project, Grant Ingersoll, Erik Hatcher, and Yonik Seeley, in addition to advisor Doug Cutting.
Business model
LucidWorks partly operates on a professional open-source business model based on open code, development within a community, professional quality assurance, and subscription-based customer support. They produce open-source code, so more programmers can make further adaptations and improvements.
LucidWorks sells subscriptions for the support, training, and integration services that help customers in using open-source software. Customers can buy support in packages according to the level of support needed.
References
- Notes
- ^ What Happened to Lucid Imagination?
- ^ Montalbano, Elizabeth (February 16, 2006). "OSBC: Professional open source grows up". InfoWorld.
- ^ Assay, Matt (April 20, 2009). CNET News http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10223005-16.html?tag=mncol;title. Unknown parameter
|=ignored (help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Finalist for the 2010 Red Herring 100 North America Award
- ^ Lucid Imagination Congratulates Apache Solr on InfoWorld Bossie Award Win [1]
External links
- Corporate website
- LucidWorks Blog
- Apache Lucene website
- Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition Blog by Grant Ingersoll, member of founding technical team
- Solr 'n Stuff Blog by Yonik Seeley, member of founding technical team
- Lucid aims to be top open source enterprise search player - Paula Rooney, ZDNet, January 25, 2009
- Startup Provides Commercial Support for Lucene-based Search – Chris Kanaracus, IDG News, January 26, 2009
- Getting Lucene Down to Business With Lucid Imagination - Jack Germain, LinuxInsider, February 20, 2009
- Steven Arnold Q&A with Marc Krellenstein, Lucid Imagination co-founder and CTO March 17, 2009
