[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[David Froble]

Kerry Main wrote:
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>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
>> lawrencedo99--- via Info-vax
>> Sent: 11-Jun-16 1:47 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Where to locate software
>>
>> 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

Kerry, if you don't put dates on those references, they aren't worth the 
bandwidth  the words use.