If MS buy Y!, then the natural thing would be for Google to take over the lead.
Miles On 01/02/2008, Raghu Angadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A little bit of speculation is ok I guess. It was good to see what Doug > said above. > > I am obviously concerned about my favorite software both as a user and > as a developer. I sure hope to continue to have the luxury of being paid > full-time by Y! to work on Hadoop, access to massive internal Hadoop > clusters, and of course co-Hadoopers around me at work. > > Speaking only for myself, not for Yahoo! , of course. > > Raghu. > > Adrian Woodhead wrote: > > They are going to rewrite the entire thing in .NET and kill the Java > > version of course ;) > > > > Let's wait and see if the sale goes thru before we even worry about what > > might/might not happen hmmm? > > > > hank williams wrote: > >> It is essentially impossible for me to conceive of Microsoft pulling > >> Yahoo out of hadoop. > >> > >> Microsoft is blind. Yahoo is somewhat less blind, at least as it > >> relates to the internet. Part of what Microsoft has stated is that > >> they want the engineers from yahoo. How much sense would it make to > >> suggest that you want all the engineers, but you want them to abandon > >> everything they have done and start again on IIS. I dont think so. > >> > >> I believe Hadoop, at least in this regard, is *totally* safe. > >> > >> Hank > >> > >> > >> ----------------------------------------- > >> whydoeseverythingsuck.com > >> > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
