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Big Data's Invisible Open Source Community

Posted by samzenpus on from the always-the-bridesmaid dept.

itwbennett writes "Hadoop, Hive, Lucene, and Solr are all open source projects, but if you were expecting the floors of the Strata Conference to be packed with intense, boostrapping hackers you'd be sorely disappointed. Instead, says Brian Proffitt, 'community' where Big Data is concerned is 'acknowledged as a corporate resource', something companies need to contribute back to. 'There is no sense of the grass-roots, hacker-dominated communities that were so much a part of the Linux community's DNA,' says Proffitt."

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  1. So... I read the article... by bmo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And I have to ask...

    What was the point of the article? That the trade show is like every trade show ever?

    Really, I'll write a report the next time I go to EASTEC and whine about the lack of "Makers" (in the geek culture sense of the word) among the vendors of Big Machinery.

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    BMO

  2. Re:Sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Parent poster nailed it.
    Try to get support from "the community" when you discover a bug in a code path that nobody except you encounters. Suddenly the community becomes very small indeed.
    There just aren't that many geeks out there who handle petabyte datasets. Prove me wrong, dear reader.