On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:52:43 -0700
Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:38PM, Andre Arcilla wrote:
> >    By 'these animals' you mean software engineers who create Hadoop
> >    components that refuse to work together, right?
> 
> No, I meant the components themselves: Hadoop, Pig and all others ;)
> 
> >    On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Jay Vyas
> > <[1][email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >    We need a better bigtop logo so that this is more clear ^^^^ :)
> > 
> >    On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Konstantin Boudnik
> > <[2][email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >      Because it is a goddamn circus: we have to tame all these
> > animals and juggle
> >      things that can't even remotely be flying ;(
> >      Hope it helps
> >        Cos
> > 
> >    On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 07:38PM, Muhammad Asif Abbasi wrote:
> >    > Hi,
> >    >
> >    > Can anybody help me figure out, why Apache BigTop is called
> >    > BigTop?
> >    >
> >    > Appreciate all the help.
> >    >
> >    > Cheers,
> > 
> >    --
> >    Jay Vyas
> >    [3]http://jayunit100.blogspot.com
> > 

Yeah, all these components make up for a good zoo, the more abstract
reason is Bigtop is meant to signify everyone under the same tent i.e.
all the various Hadoop ecosystem bits playing nicely together.

Bigtop is kind of different from most Apache projects in that we
provide things useful for other Apache projects.  

HTH,
Peter

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