2009/9/17 Mark Kerzner <markkerz...@gmail.com>: > Ah, but it says about PowerSet that it runs on Amazon, so why would they pay > extra for their own Windows and moreover, why would they use Windows given a > choice of Linux?
Maybe it's a marketing cost they're willing to bear in order to market Windows as a high-performance server platform? I'm not saying that they use Windows -- I have no way of knowing this. I'm just saying that if someone were to use Hadoop on Windows in any serious way, I'd expect it would be them. The fact that they don't advertise their cluster as using Windows probably means that they are indeed using Linux. -- Tom Wheeler http://www.tomwheeler.com/
