MS Embraces Elephant of Open Source (Hadoop)

Re:MS Embraces Elephant of Open Source (Hadoop) by JonoW on Thursday October 13, 2011 @12:12PM (#3107671)

I'm confused, if Hadoop is Java, what is there to port? Won't it just run as-is on Windows (Azure supports Java already)

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Re:MS Embraces Elephant of Open Source (Hadoop) by viraptor on Thursday October 13, 2011 @12:18PM (#3107698)

Have you ever seen an application in Java that actually works in more than one system without any env-specific code at all and does not behave in a slightly incompatible way? I haven't. (apart from toy apps which exist only to prove the opposite)

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Re:MS Embraces Elephant of Open Source (Hadoop) by JonoW on Thursday October 13, 2011 @12:30PM (#3107746)

Fair enough. I did just read this - "Various parts of Hadoop are executed using shell scripts that will only work on a Linux shell.". Sounds like you need Cygwin (currently). Guess those are the bits that will be ported.

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Re:MS Embraces Elephant of Open Source (Hadoop) by rbanffy on Thursday October 13, 2011 @12:36PM (#3107775)

> apart from toy apps which exist only to prove the opposite

They also prove it's possible to write portable code in Java. ;-)

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Re:MS Embraces Elephant of Open Source (Hadoop) by burgerbrain on Thursday October 13, 2011 @02:52PM (#3108271)

The same logic says that it is possible to write portable C programs. ;)

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Re:MS Embraces Elephant of Open Source (Hadoop) by rbanffy on Thursday October 13, 2011 @03:00PM (#3108309)

That's nothing! It's even possible to write portable C# programs. Now that's an accomplishment. ;-)

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Re:MS Embraces Elephant of Open Source (Hadoop) by bunderbunder on Thursday October 13, 2011 @12:15PM (#3107685)

Probably the main thing is creating a .NET library for talking to Hadoop.

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