One quick clarification - IBM GA'd a product called BigInsights in 2Q. It faithfully uses the Hadoop stack and many related projects - but provides a number of extensions (that are compatible) based on customer requests. Not appropriate to say any more on this list, but the info on it is all publically available.
------------------------------------------------ Tom Deutsch Program Director CTO Office: Information Management Hadoop Product Manager / Customer Exec IBM 3565 Harbor Blvd Costa Mesa, CA 92626-1420 tdeut...@us.ibm.com Michael Segel <michael_se...@hotmail.com> 07/15/2011 07:58 AM Please respond to common-user@hadoop.apache.org To <common-user@hadoop.apache.org> cc Subject RE: Which release to use? Unfortunately the picture is a bit more confusing. Yahoo! is now HortonWorks. Their stated goal is to not have their own derivative release but to sell commercial support for the official Apache release. So those selling commercial support are: *Cloudera *HortonWorks *MapRTech *EMC (reselling MapRTech, but had announced their own) *IBM (not sure what they are selling exactly... still seems like smoke and mirrors...) *DataStax So while you can use the Apache release, it may not make sense for your organization to do so. (Said as I don the flame retardant suit...) The issue is that outside of HortonWorks which is stating that they will support the official Apache release, everything else is a derivative work of Apache's Hadoop. From what I have seen, Cloudera's release is the closest to the Apache release. Like I said, things are getting interesting. HTH
