Yahoo!'s open source elephant loses its daddy

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 11, 2009 3:06 AM EDT
The Register; By Cade Metz
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Yahoo! is losing the founder of Hadoop, that increasingly popular open source grid platform based on Google's proprietary software infrastructure. On September 1, after three and a half years with Yahoo!, Doug Cutting will join Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop startup that launched earlier this year. As reported by the New York Times, Cutting announced his departure from Yahoo! this morning at a company meeting.

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