For those of you who aren't too busy pondering the VMware acquisition of SpringSource, you might also like to know that the creator of Hadoop, Doug Cutting, just announced he's leaving Yahoo to join Cloudera. That's a big move for a big name. I've said for a while now that Cloudera is the company with the Hadoop banner firmly in its grasp, despite the fact that Yahoo and Facebook both contribute mountains of code the project. Cutting has blogged about the move.
Having Cutting on board will mean that Cloudera can continue to churn out disc images for Amazon's cloud, and might even be able to start building some of the products based on Hadoop that everyone is anticipating. Doug, in his blog, basically said that Yahoo got Hadoop to this point, and now he'd like to work on the broader scale of things people are doing with the Hadoop framework, not just Web indexing.
Cutting joins a team of experienced Hadoop and map/reduce folks at Cloudera. I'm expecting great things from them now that they've got a lead singer, as it were, in their merry band.