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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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