Comments on: Yahoo Advances Program on Open Source Computing, Launches M45

By: Bill Cummins

Bill Cummins — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:13:38 +0000

I can get better analysis at the Wall St Journal …

By: Arnold Zafra

Arnold Zafra — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:59:01 +0000

Blah! I remember that post, and wasn’t able to tie it up with this Yahoo press release and instead chose to link it up with the most recent Google announcements.

Anyway, take it easy on shrugging your shoulders Matt, you might get some of your shoulder joints disaligned :-)

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:50:02 +0000

I’m just now getting around to reading the press release. The first sentence says “Yahoo! Inc. … today announced that it will be the first in the industry to launch an open source program aimed at advancing the research and development of systems software for distributed computing.”

First in the industry? Google’s post was a month ago and linked to digitized lectures from even before that: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/let-thousand-servers-bloom.html
I shrug my shoulders. :)

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:05:09 +0000

Arnold, you mention OpenSocial and the Open Handset Alliance, but you didn’t mention that Google and IBM are partnering with Univ. of Washington to teach highly parallel programming using Hadoop and open source code. Over 1500+ processors will be available, and if you look at http://code.google.com/edu/content/parallel.html you’ll see that multiple lectures from the first course were videotaped and digitized so that anyone can learn more.

Here’s one article about the initiative, which was announced over a month ago:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/google_ibm_give.html

But you can also search for [google ibm hadoop] to find lots more info.