Yeah, that was the program they wanted me to support. It started at U Wash and grew from there, to Stanford, then Berkley and took off.
Bruce On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Mathias Herberts <mathias.herbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Google itself is using Hadoop in its University program, see > http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/mapreduce-tutorial.html, and > encouraging universities such as Berkeley to expose students to MR in > their CS curriculum. > > It even has a biblio entry of 'Open Source MapReduce: > http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/'. > > Given the hard time Google has recruiting people with skills that > match their infrastructure, sueing around Hadoop would be a very > unclever move as no one would then be able to train him/herself on > those types of technologies. > > Let's face it, infrastructure and use of technologies such as MR give > Google a headstart, not MR per se. > > Just my 2ct worth. > > Mathias. > -- “Discovering...discovering...we will never cease discovering... and the end of all our discovering will be to return to the place where we began and to know it for the first time.” -T.S. Eliot
