Sentiment analysis LingPipe VS Lexalytics

Question

Hello to everyone.

Need to decide on which to use for Named Entity Recognition and sentiment analysis.

Please provide in the suggestions and is the Java libraries provided by lingpipe good. (They have sample and tutorials need to try them.)

has any one used both LingPipe, Lexalytics and are there good relevance in the result in both for sentiment analysis.

need suggestions.

I am looking at lingpipe kind of tool to be on my server not a api to interact with.

is there any other tool similar

thanks

ganesh vel