Thanks to Sean for the talk and the demos. I also noticed something in my feeds this morning that a few folks might want to see:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=15659
"Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data. "

Hadoop is the open source implementation of the MapReduce technology that allows you do do some really massive data manipulation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapreduce


-- Kris Walker
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