- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:15:00 +0200
- To: carmen r <_@whats-your.name>, semantic-web@w3.org
carmen r wrote: >> thats why I recommended to let this be done by people who have >> experience and can calculate the costs. >> consulting companies. Hackers always underestimate the effort > > consulting companies (or large universities/institutions) are likely to propose a solution which is more complicated effortwise to begin with > > primarily as a way to justify their considerable expense and achieve 'lock in' to their expertise, for future updates/maintenance > > hackers would convert his oil-IT journal's semistructure data to Django/Rails/ARC fields in an afternoon, set up some Sphinx searching, and move onto their next gig without even uttering "Lucene" Let's not divide the world between Hackers and Consultants please... Plenty of companies and universities give away vast and precious piles of work (code) for free. Even large universities. Generalisations at this level don't help anyone, really. cheers, Dan ps. I'd be happy to hear if anyone is integrating http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ with http://arc.semsol.org/ ...whether it took an afternoon or more... -- http://danbri.org/
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