OpenSearchServer began in 2007 in Infopro Communications, a French B2B media group with online and offline activities in news and information brokerage for 5 vertical segments.Because there wasn't any existing Search solution which offered an appropriate mix of features, price and ease of use, it was decided to create some software internally which would use the most advanced Open source components available and provide unsurpassed functionality. The new software would offer all the necessary modules for professional Enterprise Search applications and would become a comprehensive solution that could be used in many different internal applications. The new software would be called OpenSearchServer.The company provides hosting and professional services on two products:Search PostalThe power of Apache Lucene (TM) provided as an hosted service (SaaS) with HTML templates and REST/JSON API.OpenSearchServerAn open source search engine and crawler software based on the best open source technologies.