Microsoft Gets Some Open Source Ideas
October 21, 2011
Wired reported on some good news for the open source community recently with their article, “Microsoft Embraces Elephant of Open Source.”
Even though Microsoft had an inaugural Hadoop back in 2008, we could hardly say they had an affinity for the open source giant then. In fact, I don’t even think we could say that about them now, even with their plan to integrate the platform with future versions of its relational database, SQL Server, and its platform cloud, Windows Azure, an online service for hosting and readily scaling applications.
This does however, show they are serious about Hadoop, unlike their relationship last year with OpenStack. Microsoft’s engineers are even investing by providing the coding for this Hadoop integration.
According to the article, the strengthening of this Microsoft-Hadoop partnership isn’t just coming out of nowhere. Wired reports that general manager of product management for SQL Server Doug Leland said:
There have certainly been requests from our [SQL Server and Windows Azure] customers to embrace Hadoop and deliver an enterprise-class distribution of the platform that’s built into the Windows infrastructure and is easily managed within that infrastructure,” he said. “And that’s what we’re doing.
It appears that this is set to be a steady long-term relationship; we can hear Open Source advocates cheering from all around. The question, of course, is, “Will open source survive Microsoft’s love and attention?”
Megan Feil, October 20, 2011
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