[Xapian-discuss] Searching log files?

[Charlie Hull]

Jim wrote:
> Henry wrote:
>> On Tue, January 19, 2010 22:35, Kevin Duraj wrote:
>>  
>>> On the other hand I developed several Xapian large search engines,
>>> they never break, I lost my job, all the Xapian search engines still
>>> running smoothly long time after I am gone, so they never call me to fix
>>> it, without anybody know how they run and that is not very good if you
>>> want to be employed.
>>>     
>>
>> I had a good laugh at this one - spoken like a true consultant!  (Not
>> laughing *at* you btw, I'm a consultant too, in a way).
>>
>> This must be one of the best endorsements of Xapian I've ever read.
>>   
> I have a customer who has stopped calling me also.  I didn't get fired 
> per se, but I'm not getting any business any longer.  He's quite happy 
> with Xapian also, even though he doesn't have any knowledge of what's 
> under the hood.
> 
> The fact he's in the newspaper business might be part of the reason he's 
> not calling.  Those folks are having a hard time of it these days.

Indeed that's right! However there are some of the smarter ones who are 
realising one must innovate to survive, and for some of these a decent 
search is part of the picture.

Cheers

Charlie
> 
> Jim.
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