Yahoo Challenge to Google Has Roots in Open Source

“If you want to get your hands on an open source version of some
of Google’s core technologies, maybe you should ask Yahoo.

“Yahoo has emerged as one of a major sponsor of Hadoop, an open
source project that aims to replicate Google’s techniques for
storing and processing large amounts of data distributed across
hundreds or thousands of commodity PCs. Last year, Hadoop project
founder Doug Cutting became a Yahoo employee, and at July’s Oscon
open source conference he and Yahoo’s director of grid computing
Eric Baldeschwieler detailed how they are applying the
technology…”

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