NewsScan- Ultraseek or ZTables
The ZOPE site has a description of use with Ultraseek: http://www.zope.org/Community/CaseStudies/NewsScan/ "...The fundamental breakthrough that Zope provided was to turn Ultraseek Server's search engine into a "Database Adapter", as if it were a relational database. Then the Zope architecture becomes responsible for all Web interactions with the customers, thus supporting the business model...." If the client News-Scan wasn't using the ultraseek server could ZTables and some Zope interface do the same thing? 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 What are the benefits of using ultraseek versus a pure ZOPE solution? Yes, I know that ZTables is not yet open source but I assume that it will be available ... "Real Soon Now" ! -Bob OConnor bob@rocnet.com "May the Source be with you!"
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
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