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Yahoo loses Cutting for Cloudera
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 21:37 IST
Bangalore: After three and half years with Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), the Founder of Hadoop, Doug Cutting, who is known for his open source work on Lucene and Nutch, will now be joining a startup called Cloudera. Hadoop powers Yahoo's search index. There are speculations that Cutting decided to leave Hadoop due to Microsoft-Yahoo deal but Cutting has strongly denied that. "This has been in the works for awhile and is unrelated. I am definitely not leaving in any sort of protest, and the thing I like least about this move is that it might be perceived that way," said Cutting to New York Times.
Cloudera CEO Mike Olson has also turned down speculation of Cutting leaving Yahoo due to Microsoft-Yahoo deal. "Doug's stature in the community as the founder of the project has made him a pretty interesting candidate for us for some time. My conversations with Doug preceded [the Microhoo deal] by some amount of time," he said to The Register.
Hadoop is a means of crunching epic amounts of data across a network of distributed machines. Inspired by Google papers, Cutting and Mike Cafarella had developed the platform for use with Nutch, which was used as an open source web crawler. Cutting was soon hired to help spearhead the project as a Yahoo employee. Soon Hadoop became the largest contributor to the Apache-hosted project.
On his personal blog, Cutting says he will continue working with Yahoo developers and will be doing much the same work with Cloudera that he was doing at Yahoo. Yahoo has wished Cutting well for the future. "We are very happy to have had Doug as part of our Yahoo Hadoop team for the past three and a half years," the company said to The Register. "In that time we've worked together to make Apache Hadoop the most powerful and widely used open source software for handling large data sets and computing at Internet-scale. Moving forward, we wish Doug the best in his new endeavors. We are looking forward to continuing to lead on innovation and investment in Hadoop, as well as to collaborating with Doug and the growing Hadoop community."
