Robert O'Connor wrote:
If the client News-Scan wasn't using the ultraseek server could ZTables and some Zope interface do the same thing?
Not quite. Ultraseek includes things such as: 1) A robot. The Zope-based (using the mythical Catalog) would require all the objects to be in Zope. Of course an intrepid programmer could do something about this... 2) Parsers for things like PDF, Word, etc. 3) Some supersophisticated features needed under ten percent of the time but which everybody thinks they need :^) Ultraseek is a pretty sophisticated product which I have a lot of respect for.
Ultraseek seems expensive at $1 per document with 1000 document minimum and $0.50 per document up to 10,000 documents. http://software.infoseek.com/products/ultraseek/ultraprice.htm
Tis true... --Paul