CIA gets open source for enterprise search

"In-Q-Tel is investing in Lucid Imagination, which provides support, maintenance, training and add-on software for the Apache Software Foundation's Lucene and Solr search projects. Lucene is an information retrieval library that can be used for full-text indexing and search. Solr is an enterprise-search server based on Lucene.

"The companies did not disclose the nature of the investment but said that it is aimed at making Lucid's open-source enterprise-search software more prevalent in the U.S. intelligence community.

"Lucid officially launched in February after securing initial funding in October of last year, said Anil Uberoi, chief marketing officer of the fledgling company."

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