[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[Kerry Main]

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> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Where to locate software
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> On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 3:05:04 PM UTC+12, Kerry Main wrote:
> > Google is unique in that it has unlimited budgets ...
> 
> Nobody has unlimited budgets.
> 
> > They also use rack servers only which means huge amounts of network
> > latency ...
> 
> You notice every time you do a Google query, it reports how many
> results it found, and how long it took?
> 
> Have you ever implemented a search engine that could report similar
> performance?

Well, as I recall, AltaVista and NorthernLight used to be pretty impressive
search engines. 

NorthernLight is (was?) an OpenVMS based web search engine. Its focus 
today is on Business Market Intelligence and not general web queries.

https://northernlight.com/
https://northernlight.com/market-intelligence-solutions/ 

Here is testimonial quote from a past OpenVMS brochure:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/info/L4V13S/L4V13SSC.TXT 
"We had to have an operating system that could scale our database 
to billions of documents while providing very fast query times with 
uninterrupted 24 x 7 availability. Northern Light's Web search engine 
is the largest text-retrieval database in the history of the world, and it 
takes the unequaled power, speed and scalability of Compaq OpenVMS 
to run it."
- David Seuss, CEO, Northern Light Technology, Inc.
 
Also, more background:
http://www.terabase.com/appnotes/NorthernLight/html/NorthernLight_1.html
"Terabase delivered core server technology for the Northern Light Web 
Search Engine by leveraging the Terabase(r)/SRF Search and Retrieval 
Facility in conjunction with highly reliable OpenVMS Alpha clusters."

My understanding is that there is also some UNIX In the solution as well.

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com