Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera

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Post by VonGuard » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 8:42 PM UTC

Hadoop creator leaves Yahoo! to join Hadoop startup

Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera
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Re: Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera

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Post by zandorg » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 9:25 PM UTC

Is it true that when an Internet company stops growing, people jump to the newest big-growth company (for reasons of stock options)? Like Microsoft to Google, and Google to whoever?

Re: Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera

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Post by sachinag » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 9:25 PM UTC

If Mike Olson wanted to hire me to sweep floors and wash dishes, I would. (Former banking client; the best combo of tech smarts and people skills I've ever seen.)

Re: Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera

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Post by rjurney » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 9:29 PM UTC

Its pretty clear to many people that Cloudera is a rocket ship heading skyward, both in terms of innovation and valuation. Working there as an early employee means participating in the profits as the company grows, as well as being able to focus on turning Hadoop into the kernel of the network computer of tomorrow. As cool as Yahoo is, its not hard to see why Cloudera could lure Cutting away.

Re: Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera

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Post by VonGuard » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 9:58 PM UTC

Every day, I seem to have a new "revelation" for how "you could use Hadoop for that."

Either I am retarded, or there's an awful lot of standard BS that Hadoop fixes.

Re: Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera

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Post by thunk » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 10:22 PM UTC

Doug, cutting leaves;

"Yahoo for cloudera," the groudskeepers say.

Dawn dew burns upward -- a fine mist.

Re: Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera

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Post by joshu » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 10:24 PM UTC

rjurney wrote: post #4

Its pretty clear to many people that Cloudera is a rocket ship heading skyward, both in terms of innovation and valuation. Working there as an early employee means participating in the profits as the company grows, as well as being able to focus on turning Hadoop into the kernel of the network computer of tomorrow. As cool as Yahoo is, its not hard to see why Cloudera could lure Cutting away.

Since when is Yahoo cool?

Re: Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera

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Post by rjurney » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 10:50 PM UTC

joshu wrote: post #7

rjurney wrote: post #4

Its pretty clear to many people that Cloudera is a rocket ship heading skyward, both in terms of innovation and valuation. Working there as an early employee means participating in the profits as the company grows, as well as being able to focus on turning Hadoop into the kernel of the network computer of tomorrow. As cool as Yahoo is, its not hard to see why Cloudera could lure Cutting away.

Since when is Yahoo cool?

Since they hired Doug, gave us Hadoop, Pig, YUI etc? Since their home page started being a great portal for normal people? Since Yahoo Labs started churning out the awesome? Since they've given more to FOSS than any other company, ever?

By any standard other than 'Web 2.0 Douchebag' - Yahoo is SUPREMELY cool, whatever you think of their long-term prospects or what might have been.

Re: Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera

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Post by rjurney » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 10:51 PM UTC

VonGuard wrote: post #5

Every day, I seem to have a new "revelation" for how "you could use Hadoop for that." Either I am retarded, or there's an awful lot of standard BS that Hadoop fixes.

Any problem you want to throw a lot of computers at, its now pretty easy to do that.

Kinda a big deal, yeah. Major changes coming to computing in general as new opportunities present themselves.

Re: Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera

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Post by sil3ntmac » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 10:53 PM UTC

thunk wrote: post #6

Doug, cutting leaves; "Yahoo for cloudera," the groudskeepers say. Dawn dew burns upward -- a fine mist.

It's gotta be tough when your last name is a participle