
Open – For Business – At the ASF
by Merv Adrian | March 27, 2018
The Apache Software Foundation is about to celebrate an anniversary, and its extraordinary contribution to the economic refactoring of software stacks seems to be gaining more momentum with every passing...

December 2017 Tracker - Where's Hadoop?
by Merv Adrian | December 29, 2017
The leading 2017 story of Hadoop distributions is that nobody seems to want to be accused of being in the business of providing them. Some former champions are expanding their shiny new positioning: Cloudera...

The Era of SQL Server on Windows-Only Is Over – OMG
by Merv Adrian | September 25, 2017
Written by Donald Feinberg and Merv Adrian
On 25-Sep-2017 at Ignite, Microsoft announced general availability of SQL Server 2017, now supporting both Windows and Linux platforms, as well as support for containers. It can now book revenue...

Yes, Watson, There IS an Alexa/Cortana Clique
by Daryl Plummer | August 30, 2017
Today, two of the Voice personal assistant (VPA) giants got together and decided to cooperate on creating a big-time social party between their voice services. Alexa and Cortana are now...

IBM Ends Hadoop Distribution, Hortonworks Expands Hybrid Open Source
by Merv Adrian | June 21, 2017
IBM has followed Intel and EMC/Pivotal in abandoning efforts to make a business of Hadoop distributions, and followed Microsoft in making Hortonworks its supplying partner. At the former Hadoop Summit,...

Hadoop Tracker - March 2017
by Merv Adrian | March 16, 2017
Stack expansion has ground to a halt. The last time an Apache project was added to the list of those most supported by leading Hadoop distribution vendors was July 2016, when...

Multiprocessing Nostalgia
by Merv Adrian | October 17, 2016
My esteemed Colleague Henry Cook offers this trip down memory lane (pun intended)
An office email exchange on the history of multi-processors prompted a quick recap, and it was suggested...

Hadoop Project Commercial Support Tracker July 2016
by Merv Adrian | July 30, 2016
There are now 15 projects supported by all 5 distributors I track, and several have had new releases since April. Kafka is the newest addition, and I believe the remaining 4-supporter offerings, Mahout...

Hadoop Apache Project Commercial Support Tracker April 2016
by Merv Adrian | April 27, 2016
There are now 20 commonly supported projects: Avro, Flume and Solr join the group supported by all 5 distributors and other changes appear as well.
For this version of the...

DBMS 2015 Numbers Paint a Picture of Slow but Steady Change
by Merv Adrian | April 12, 2016
Gartner recently published “Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2015” (for clients) and the story the DBMS data tells continues themes we have been observing for some time in the...