Grant Ingersoll wrote:
From a Mahout view, we are very much aiming at addressing the scaling
issue. As for the GUI, I think that will always be a "contrib" for
Mahout, if one ever exists. My personal goal for Mahout is to keep it
lean and easily usable in a wide variety of applications. Just as
Lucene has made search a commodity in many ways, I think Mahout could
enable ML to be a commodity in 5 years.
Also, a glaring difference between the two is Weka is GPL. I'll leave
it to you to read all the discussions on ASL vs. GPL and do not want
to start that discussion here, as there is no point.
Last, I imagine we will all coexist nicely. Weka will be useful for
many tasks, and Mahout will be useful for many tasks and there will
certainly be overlap.
That makes a lot of sense :-)
