Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

SI - Site Forums : Silicon Investor - Welcome New SI Members! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: (Bob) Zumbrunnen who wrote (16345)	3/10/2003 10:03:17 PM
From: Hoatzin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32917

I'd accept slightly stale results (i.e. from yesterday back) over slow response times. 18M messages, how many searchable words you think that is? (Excluding "a' "the" "duh" etc.) If I built a search key of every searchable word from every message plus message ID, subject ID, poster ID, that would still be not much bigger than a breadbox. But you wouldn't want to pay for that insert at Submit time...

To: (Bob) Zumbrunnen who wrote (16345)	3/11/2003 12:19:06 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32917

re: search function, use what works, or search for a..... . Does Google have a pripority built database & search engine, or have they bought off the shelf the hardware and software and invested amounts of cash unavailable to Silicon Investor? . Hard for me to believe that a Microsoft type strangle hold has developed where only a few available For Sale complete solutions exist, and the only way to obtain cutting edge technology is to develope it in house. . I'am near clueless on this area, but i think Oracle is a big software producer, but is there a catch that they only sell "ready to run, turn-key" solutions, that require no additional cost, of old fashion technology with a new coat of paint? But to obtain latest & greatest you have to cough up huge amounts of extra money and buy into service contracts for installation and maintence? . I bet many software solutions that run on Linux have been created by a dozen Ph.D. papers these last 5 years that would blow away what is now used by small companies buying the low cost available stuff. . Since i have no idea the platform Si here uses, i'll guess its Windows, or a version of Unix. If Unix and a transfer of the data formatted can be exchanged back & forth to a Linux system, then it seems like a wise investment to look into it since if it will work the cost will be less than that required in further years when the database currently grows to a size requiring the company to either pay up big time, or cease. . For sure E.C. (E. Charters) (eyeHub echarters) would be a resource to investigate this as he has lots of free time waiting for his wild cat to come home before the cows :o) doug