-Zebra is a fielded free-text indexing and retrieval engine with a Z39.50
-frontend. You can use any compatible, commercial or freeware Z39.50 client to
-access data stored in Zebra. Zebra may be used free-of-charge in non-profit
-applications by non-commercial organisations.
+Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing
+and retrieval engine. It reads structured records in a variety of input
+formats (eg. email, XML, MARC) and allows access to them through exact
+boolean search expressions and relevance-ranked free-text queries.