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Lucene Revolution 2012 is the largest conference dedicated to open source search. This conference provides professional training on Lucene and Solr as well as a unique opportunity to learn from the search experts in multiple educational tracks.

Lucene Revolution is presented by Lucid Imagination, the commercial entity for Apache Solr/Lucene Open Source Search -- the future of search technology.

Dates:

May 7-8, 2012 - Two-day Training Classes
May 9-10, 2012 - Two-day Conference

Location:

Lucene Revolution 2012 will be based at The Royal Sonesta Hotel in Boston - located on the Cambridge side of the Charles River. 
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the conference hotel,  the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Boston (in Cambridge.) Our room rate is $239/night.Reserve your room here or call the hotel directly ask for the Lucene Revolution Conference Rate.

Address:

40 Edwin Land Boulevard
Cambridge,
MA, USA 02142

800.SONESTA (U.S. & Canada) or 617.806.4200
Maps & Directions

About the Technologies:

Apache Lucene:

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

Apache Solr:

Apache Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.

LucidWorks Enterprise:
Thousands of organizations around the world have turned to the power of Apache Solr/Lucene open source technology to drive their cutting-edge search applications. Now, LucidWorks Enterprise, the new search solution development platform from the Lucene/Solr experts at Lucid Imagination, leverages the cost-effective architecture of open source search technology to let you build search applications that scale economically.With LucidWorks Enterprise you get a complete, up to date Apache Solr/Lucene release, with all the very latest Solr features. But you don't need to be familiar with Solr in order to build search applications with LucidWorks Enterprise. Its power is in the convenience it delivers to application developers to build fast, flexible, scalable search applications, with features that accelerate productivity, slash the learning curve, and provide you with the resources you need to build a killer app cost-effectively.

Why Attend Lucene Revolution?

• Learn from some of the leading users of Lucene/Solr - and meet many of the key committers driving Lucene and Solr innovation
• Hear about the latest developments in Lucene and Solr technology - and what is coming in the future
• Solve problems & get new ideas for your projects
• Develop relationships and network with other Lucene and Solr users - and share best practices
• Learn about complementary technologies: Tika, Mahout, etc.
• Meet with commercial vendors offering Lucene & Solr products and services and see how they might deliver value for your search application development and support
• Get trained on Lucene and Solr by the experts

Who Should Attend?

• Search application developers and managers
• Enterprise users, IT professionals, architects
• Search managers
• System adminstrators
• Internet and Intranet application developers
• Information and content managers
• Senior management