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Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters. Jon Stokes speculates that Facebook plan to use open source hardware to compete with Google at datacenter efficiency . This isn’t a new pattern. Years ago when I worked at Yahoo! I was furiously jealous of the secret sauce technologies that allowed Google to build big applications faster than anyone else, such as BigTable and map/reduce. Today, the open source world has created better, free alternatives—sponsored in part by Facebook, Yahoo! and other Google competitors.

Posted 9th April 2011 at 7:54 am

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11 comments

  1. "sponsored in part by Facebook, Yahoo! and other Google competitors"

    *and* Google...

    Stephen - 9th April 2011 09:23 - #

  2. I was a surprised by the post from a xoogler hinting Hadoop was better than google map/reduce - I'd always assumed Google was a few generations ahead. Open/group source is a very nice way to equalize competitive advantage.

    Parand Tony Darugar - 9th April 2011 19:31 - #

  3. And OpenStack?

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