Category Archives: Code

What is Apache Hadoop?

4th
Aug. × ’11
By Shane

There’s a lot of excitement around Hadoop software these days, here’s my definition of what “Hadoop” means: Hadoop ™ is the ASF’s trademark for our Apache Hadoop software product that provides a service and simple programming model for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of commodity computers. Many people view Hadoop as [...]

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Apache projects are independent and non-commercial

11th
May. × ’11
By Shane

While not all aspects of the Apache Way are practiced the same way by all projects at the ASF, there are a number of rules that Apache projects are required to follow – things like complying with PMC release voting, legal policy, brand policy, using mailing lists, etc., which are documented in various places. There [...]

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July Apache news roundup: Greg! Adobe+Day! FOP! FOP?

30th
Jul. × ’10
By Shane

A brief listing of some of the news around the ASF this past month. Adobe is in talks to purchase Day Software. You can read the Redmonk’er Coté’s analyst view of how the products compliment each other, a good ComputerWorld overview article, or can read Bertrand’s or Jukka’s great community analysis, or just see Bertrand’s [...]

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apache.numprojects -= 1; apache.karaf.intro = “Welcome!”

1st
Jul. × ’10
By Shane

For only the fourth time in our history at last month’s June board meeting we passed resolutions that effectively reduced the total number of Apache projects by one. As was widely expected, the board terminated the Apache iBATIS project, and sent it to the Apache Attic. This recognizes that we don’t expect there to be [...]

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