Thanks everyone who responded to my query. I will definitely check Rubicon,
UDMSearch and

>But then there is also dtSearch and BRSSeach

Well, Dataware is pretty much dropping BRS/Search and that's the reason why
we are looking at other solutions.

>At least with CONTAINING you can look for text in char, varchar and
>BLOB fields in a case insensitive way.

Well, firstly, full-text search involves much more functionality (for
example, "Harrison NEAR5 Starkey" - meaning not further than 5 words apart).
Secondly, even if CONTAINING gives the functionality, but is it workable for
large amounts of full text?

>there�s an old message Jason posted to this list a year ago
>how to build a word indexed text search by your own.

Since *this* list didn't even exist a year ago I would humbply ask anyone
who has the copy of that message to forward it to me.

>The original request mentioned Linux, which disqualifies Rubicon or
>similar Windows solutions at the moment.

Well, I wasn't clear. We are not looking for a Linux solution specifically,
we would be 99% satisfied with Windows-only solution as well. My point was
that a lot of people are using FREE tools such as Linux/Apache/Perl and now
InterBase; since we are not the only one who needs full text search engine,
I will be surprised if there is nothing going on in open source world.

Sincerely,

Syarzhuk

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