New silver sponsor: Basis Technology

[Serge Knystautas <se...@apache.org>]

I'd like to let everyone know that Basis Technology is a new silver 
sponsor for the Apache Software Foundation.  They join a group of 
organizations and individuals [1] that provide financial support to the 
foundation to keep the servers running and everything else that we need 
to do to support the projects.

Basis Technology is both a user and contributor to many projects at the 
ASF.  Benson Margulies (bimargulies@apache.org) is an ASF member and 
works for Basis.

Basis is a provider of high speed, high accuracy, linguistic solutions 
that interoperate with Lucene/Solr. They see Lucene/Solr as critical 
enabling technology for search, and they believe that there is a natural 
partnership between the open source technology, on the one hand, and on 
linguistic technology that depends on data that is, for the forseeable 
future, not going to be open source on the other. Benson is a PMC member 
and committer on Apache Mahout, the NLP offshoot of Lucene/Solr.

Also, Basis is a provider of solutions in the field of digital 
forensics. PDFBox and Tika are critical enabling technologies in this 
field.  Brian Carrier is a committer on PDFBox, and Benson is an 
occasional contributor to Tika.

Finally, Basis delivers SOA solutions to our customers, and they've 
standardized on Apache CXF for this purpose. Benson is a committer and 
PMC member on CXF to help ensure that the things that they need are there.

[1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html

-- 
Serge Knystautas
Vice President for Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation
serge@apache.org

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