On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> Todd, > > Good to have you weigh in on this. You provide a good counterweight. > > To take a new hypothetical, suppose that one of the many, many patches that > Cloudera has championed for Hadoop is critical for Hbase operation or makes > Hbase faster. > > Is it reasonable to answer a question of the form "Is HDFS-xxx fixed?" with > "Fixed in CDH, followups off-list"? > One distinguishing factor is that CDH is Apache 2.0 licensed free and open source software. And the answer would never be "fixed in CDH but not in Apache trunk" -- any non-trivial changes in CDH are committed to trunk before we backport them. So, I feel like pointing people to CDH is appropriate for this open-source list. As for Cloudera Enterprise (our paid closed-source product) I'd expect to be held to the same standards as a MapR employee touting MapR -- i.e. I wouldn't bring it up on the public mailing list. > That seems to be important information for not just the original poster but > others who may have the same problem. > > What is the consensus on that? > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Another answer that I want to underscore is "MapR supports Hbase. A > > lot." > > > > > > > The issue is that I might be then tempted to start arguing that Cloudera > > Enterprise supports HBase better than MapR. Then we devolve into an > > annoying > > vendor war which doesn't help anyone. > > > > Best to just set a policy and stick to it for public responses. I don't > see > > anything wrong with your replying off-list to the requester with a sales > > pitch. This provides the information that might help the user without > > risking polluting the -user list with a lot of discussion of commercial > > products. > > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
