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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. A very simple explanation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "There is no sense of the grass-roots, hacker-dominated communities that were so much a part of the Linux community's DNA"

    This is for one simple reason: most hackers don't need "BigData".

    Perhaps if the typical hacker had a cluster of servers to play with, this would change. But as long as most hackers are bound to using a single personal computer, they're just not going to be very concerned with clusterware.

    They're also not concerned with plenty of other things that are essential to big corporations, like payroll software and CRM (customer relationship managment) software.