I am curious about the IBM product BigInishgts. Where can we download it? It seems we have to register to download it?
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Tom Deutsch <tdeut...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > One quick clarification - IBM GA'd a product called BigInsights in 2Q. It > faithfully uses the Hadoop stack and many related projects - but provides > a number of extensions (that are compatible) based on customer requests. > Not appropriate to say any more on this list, but the info on it is all > publically available. > > > ------------------------------------------------ > Tom Deutsch > Program Director > CTO Office: Information Management > Hadoop Product Manager / Customer Exec > IBM > 3565 Harbor Blvd > Costa Mesa, CA 92626-1420 > tdeut...@us.ibm.com > > > > > Michael Segel <michael_se...@hotmail.com> > 07/15/2011 07:58 AM > Please respond to > common-user@hadoop.apache.org > > > To > <common-user@hadoop.apache.org> > cc > > Subject > RE: Which release to use? > > > > > > > > Unfortunately the picture is a bit more confusing. > > Yahoo! is now HortonWorks. Their stated goal is to not have their own > derivative release but to sell commercial support for the official Apache > release. > So those selling commercial support are: > *Cloudera > *HortonWorks > *MapRTech > *EMC (reselling MapRTech, but had announced their own) > *IBM (not sure what they are selling exactly... still seems like smoke and > mirrors...) > *DataStax > > So while you can use the Apache release, it may not make sense for your > organization to do so. (Said as I don the flame retardant suit...) > > The issue is that outside of HortonWorks which is stating that they will > support the official Apache release, everything else is a derivative work > of Apache's Hadoop. From what I have seen, Cloudera's release is the > closest to the Apache release. > > Like I said, things are getting interesting. > > HTH > > > > -- --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--
