Those things aren't cheap (the Mini's run five grand, and the Google Search Appliance is tens of $$) but they do have the ability to index MySQL databases [1]
Interestingly they have special pricing for nonprofits[2]
Anyway, i'm surprised with this whole Google shenanigan that no one has mentioned Google runs proprietary software, free as in "it used to be free until we modified it and only released a insignificantly small portion of it" [3]
[1] http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/features.html [2] http://www.google.com/support/gsa/bin/answer.py?answer=16213&topic=-1 [3] http://code.google.com/
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:53:31 +0100, Minty mintywalker@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know where things are/got-to wrt Google donating servers, but:
Would they be able to donate one of their Search-Appliance thingies? Even if as a short term measure?
- It'd allow for daily updates
- It'd be no coding/dev work for WP
- No extra software to install on your servers, no extra hardware to look after
- Look n Feel could be customised, and I imagine it could even live
under it's own wikipedia subdomain
- Would involve Google crawling the site again
- Might not deal well with older revisions / seperation of meta pages etc.
If there is a philosophical objection to the "non free" java, I can at least see the potential for concern about doing this, but equally if we are getting hardware from them for free anyway it seems logically to get Search customised hardware+service, rather than just pure hosting hardware.....
And in any event, there is no "lock in" if you ever wanted to revert to a different implementation. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l