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Microsoft Goes In For Hadoop

Posted by timothy on from the well-it-is-a-nice-name dept.

Frankie70 writes that after more than three years, Microsoft has "finally learned to stop worrying and love Hadoop." Frankie70 excerpts from the linked Wired article: "Any aversion to Hadoop disappeared on Wednesday, when the company announced that it will integrate the platform with future versions of its relational database, SQL Server, and its platform cloud, Windows Azure, an online service for hosting and readily scaling applications. The company is now working to port the Hadoop platform to Windows."

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  1. Hadoop is written in Java by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Funny

    So what they mean is, they're going to do a search and replace to make it compile as a C# application.

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  2. Heh by Hatta · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone should trick Timothy into reposting this article. Then he'd be duped into posting a dupe about hadoop.

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  3. as usual, the summary here is lacking by tomzyk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    its relational database, SQL Server, and its platform cloud, Windows Azure, an online service for hosting and readily scaling applications

    That's wonderful that the summary mentions what "SQL Server" and "Azure" are... but why no mention of wtf "Hadoop" is?
    Why do I need to RTFA just to find out what we're talking about here?

    Hadoop — an open source platform for crunching epic amounts of a data across an army of dirt-cheap servers

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