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Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers
As a follow up from this year’s ApacheCon:
I had 30 people in my Lucene Boot Camp training class this time around and I would guess that at least 15 were on Apple laptops (50%, well above the general Apple market share).  I also would guess that there were more Mac [...]

I.B.M. to Push ‘Cloud Computing,’ Using Data From Afar - New York Times

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

I.B.M. to Push ‘Cloud Computing,’ Using Data From Afar - New York Times
The software that I.B.M. is packaging in its cloud offering is called Hadoop, running on the Linux operating system. Hadoop is based on an open-source search project called Nutch, and an open-source version of Google’s MapReduce software for spreading complex computer tasks [...]