- The Zebra information server combines a versatile fielded/free-text
- search engine with a Z39.50-1995 frontend to provide a powerful and
- flexible information management system.
- This document explains the procedure for installing and
- configuring the system, and outlines the possibilities for
- managing data and providing Z39.50 services with the software.
+ Zebra is a free, fast, friendly information management system. It
+ can index records in XML/SGML, MARC, e-mail archives and many
+ other formats, and quickly find them using a combination of
+ boolean searching and relevance ranking. Search-and-retrieve
+ applications can be written using APIs in a wide variety of
+ languages, communicating with the Zebra server using
+ industry-standard information-retrieval protocols.
+ </simpara>
+ <simpara>
+ This manual explains how to build and install Zebra, configure it
+ appropriately for your application, add data and set up a running
+ information service. It describes version @VERSION@ of Zebra.