Here’s something interesting I’ve just seen on James Dixon’s blog: apparently Microsoft is preparing to provide Hadoop on Windows Azure. Here’s the article James links to:
http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34319
I wonder if this is just a stopgap, in response to customer demand, as the article suggests it might be? How does this fit with the recently-announced Technical Computing Initiative? Was Project Dryad a dead end?
