When Microsoft completed its acquisition of San Francisco-based startup Powerset in July, it acquired more than just search-engine technology. In the HBase component of Powerset's product, Microsoft also acquired open-source code that is actively being redistributed back into the Apache Software Foundation's Hadoop project.
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lozz
13 years 24 weeks 16 hours 52 min ago
Pigs might fly
But M$ won't be able to get the Windows open enough to get started.
A typical bit of IDG agit-prop on behalf of M$.