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Yahoo Becomes Apache Platinum Sponsor

Posted by kdawson on from the confluence-of-interests dept.

jschauma writes "Yahoo published a press release announcing that it has become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. In their company blog, Yahoo points out their particular interest in the Apache projects Lucene and Hadoop, and that they have hired Doug Cutting, creator of both projects and VP at Apache. (Lucene powers the search on Wikipedia; Yahoo also provides hosting capacity to Wikimedia.)"

2 of 110 comments (clear)

  1. Re:If Everyone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Replying to a first post! Come on! Mod parent && this post down.

  2. Re:Go Yahoo by thelamecamel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well let's just hope they don't adopt Wikipedia's pathetic search engine...