+ <para>
+ &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 or web services.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ &zebra; is licensed Open Source, and can be
+ deployed by anyone for any purpose without license fees. The C source
+ code is open to anybody to read and change under the GPL license.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ &zebra; is a networked component which acts as a reliable &z3950; server
+ for both record/document search, presentation, insert, update and
+ delete operations. In addition, it understands the &sru; family of
+ webservices, which exist in REST GET/POST and truly SOAP flavors.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ &zebra; is available as MS Windows 2003 Server (32 bit) self-extracting
+ package as well as GNU/Debian Linux (32 bit and 64 bit) precompiled
+ packages. It has been deployed successfully on other Unix systems,
+ including Sun Sparc, HP Unix, and many variants of Linux and BSD
+ based systems.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.indexdata.com/zebra/">http://www.indexdata.com/zebra/</ulink>
+ <ulink url="http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/win32/">http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/win32/</ulink>
+ <ulink url="http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/">http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/</ulink>
+ </para>
+