Well, there is a community now, and HBase along with Hadoop is under the Apache umbrella, so I have confidence in the long term survival of the project. But it would be a real shame and a big blow to the project if the Powerset guys have to move on.
- Andy --- On Wed, 7/2/08, stack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: stack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Powerset sold > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 10:32 AM > stack wrote: > > Jean-Daniel Cryans wrote: > >> Hey guys, > >> > >> > http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/26/microsoft-to-buy-semantic-search-engine-powerset-for-100m-plus/ > > >> > > Saw that. No basis in fact. Jim and I have no plans > for, nor have we > > been given directives to do, anything else but what > we've been at over > > the last year plus. > Turns out venturebeat knew more than I. Pardon me. I > didn't mean to > mislead. I just wrote what I knew at the time. > > We'll keep the list up-to-date on the deals effect on > hbase as we learn > more. > > St.Ack
