Xapian devel - Mar 2006 - AIR wants to move from CD-ROM based products to Web

Hello,

 I am the Software Engineer to CommNet (www.community-networks.net).
 All India Reporter is the largest publisher of law
 journals in India and publishing their content on
 CD-ROMs using Folio for last 7 years. Now they would
 like to also publish using the web.
  
 Please give me the list of packaged search engine ,
 options they have using for fastsearch. 
 Please give complete range from
 low end to high end along with advantages and
 disadvantages. Also include initial pricing and
 recurring license fees.
  
 I have promised that we will give them a proposal in
 next couple of days since they would like to decide
 and make investments before March 31, 2006 (before
 end of Financial Year in India). Hence your early
 response will be appreciated.
  
 Can you also give me idea of the underlying platform
 requirements and bandwidth considerations. I am
 meeting few hosting service providers to get their
 quotations. Also is their way to account for
 bandwidth being used by individual users? This will
 help in billing.
  
Eagerly waiting for your reply.

 Regards
 Ms.Noorjahan

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:44:50PM +0530, Community Networks
wrote:
>  Please give complete range from
>  low end to high end along with advantages and
>  disadvantages. Also include initial pricing and
>  recurring license fees.
Xapian is Free Software.  There's no charge for use at all, though you
have to follow the licensing conditions.

However, if you're looking for someone to help you develop a bespoke
solution, then they'll probably want payment for their work.  There are
several people on this list who may be able to help (including myself)
but you'd need to discuss your requirements, and negotiate a mutually
agreeable payment structure for the work.
>  Can you also give me idea of the underlying platform
>  requirements and bandwidth considerations.
Xapian runs on any modern Unix-like platform (including Linux and
MacOS X), and also on Windows.

I'd imagine that the bandwith usage for a web front-end searching
an archive of legal journals would be pretty low, but it's rather
hard to say without knowing more about your application.

Cheers,
    Olly