Yahoo! is creating a new company with its core Hadoop engineering team, seeking to rapidly expand the scope of the open source distributed number-crunching platform and ultimately bring it to a much wider audience. In growing the Hadoop "ecosystem" through increased work on the core Apache-based open source project, the company …

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Wednesday 29th June 2011 00:30 GMT Robert E A Harvey

Hortonworks?

I wonder if Random House know about this?

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Wednesday 29th June 2011 08:28 GMT Anonymous Coward

maybe

but they'll only care if "Horton" is a trademark

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Wednesday 29th June 2011 08:46 GMT collinsl

Where! Are! All! The! Exclamation! Points! In! A! Title! About! Yahoo!?

Where! Are! All! The! Exclamation! Points! In! A! Title! About! Yahoo!?

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