I imagine you weren't talking to the right developers. :D Cassandra was open sourced last year.
Joe On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Todd English <tengl...@popcap.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > We were just at Facebook talking to some of its developers and asked > them about Cassandra. The people in the room had no idea what we were > talking about. One of them mentioned that they open sourced the Facebook > "data store" three years ago but it was awful and no longer used > internally. I'm wondering if we were talking to the wrong developers, if > the "data store" was some other project or was/is it Cassandra. > > I see that Facebook is listed in the "Powered by" section but am unsure > what to make of our meeting. > > Thank you for any insight you can provide, > Todd English > -- Joe Van Dyk http://fixieconsulting.com