Lucid Imagination
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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) Frank Calderon (COO) 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 Lucid Gaze |
| Website | http://www.lucidimagination.com |
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. Lucid Imagination is a private company founded in 2007 and publicly launched on January 26, 2009. 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,[1][2] enterprise search application developers have sought similar models for these applications as well.
The Lucid Imagination founding technical team consists of Marc Krellenstein, a veteran in the enterprise search industry and several key contributors and committers to the Lucene project such as Grant Ingersoll, Erik Hatcher, and Yonik Seeley, in addition to advisor Doug Cutting.
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[edit] Business model
Lucid Imagination 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. They also provide certified distributions to increase customer confidence in the apache distributions.
Lucid Imagination 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.
Lucid Imagination offers one month of free support in their "get started" program to all developers downloading their certified distributions. They also offer open source tools and utilities including Lucid Gaze that helps developers with insights into their own lucene implementation.
[edit] Awards
- Finalist for the 2010 Red Herring 100 North America Award[3]
- Lucid Imagination Congratulates Apache Solr on InfoWorld Bossie Award Win[4]
[edit] References
- Notes
- ^ Montalbano, Elizabeth (February 16, 2006). "OSBC: Professional open source grows up". InfoWorld. http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/02/16/75483_HNosbcprofessional_1.html.
- ^ Assay, Matt (April 20, 2009). CNET News. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10223005-16.html?tag=mncol;title.
- ^ Finalist for the 2010 Red Herring 100 North America Award [1]
- ^ Lucid Imagination Congratulates Apache Solr on InfoWorld Bossie Award Win [2]
[edit] External links
- Corporate website
- Lucid 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
