Yes. Hbase was started by powerset and two of us contributed first as powerset employees and then later after our acquisition by microsoft and a pause of a few months while some interesting legal issues were worked through, i resumed contributing to apache hbase as an employee of Microsoft. A bunch of backscenes work by mgmnt at powerset and by the ms integration team made what I thought the impossible happen (at the time I was highly skeptical and was out talking to all and sundry looking for someone else to assume hbase sponsorship). I do not think our work was the first open source ms contrib -- I seem to remember fixes for some sqlserver open source driver happening before we were let resume -- but I am pretty sure it was the most sustained (I was near full time working on hbase). I remained a ms employee free to contrib to hbase, hadoop itself had not been vetted by ms legal so was off limits, for over a year until the day we all realized hbase no longer fit the direction in which the powerset division was headed. Then I moved on.
Microsoft sponsored early hbase dev. Stack On Aug 1, 2011, at 19:50, Fuad Efendi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> re: "Is it really-really supported by Microsoft employees?!" >> >> It is really, really not. >> > > > I believe Hbase was contributed to Apache by a Powerset, currently owned > by Microsoft; and (same contributors) were full-time supporting Hbase and > having salaries from Microsoft for at least a year; it was first > (implicit) contribution from Microsoft to Apache. > >
