On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:51 -0500, Eric Evans wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 07:53 -0700, Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1 wrote: > > On a related but separate note: While I am fairly new to Cassandra and > > have only been following the mailing lists for a few months, the > > conversation with Kevin Rose on TWiT made me curious if the versions > > of Cassandra that Digg, Twitter, and Facebook are using may end up > > being forks of the Apache project or old versions. > > Facebook and Apache have diverged (technically we're the fork). To the > best of my knowledge, this has always been the case.
This person's understanding is that Facebook 'no longer contributes to nor uses Cassandra.': http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/05/17/beyond-cassandra/ I assume it's accurate - policy reasons wouldn't interest me as much as technical ones. Bill
