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Putting open source where our mouth is

Posted December 13th, 2007 at 3:25 pm by Jay Kistler, Search & Advertising Technology Group

Number of Comments 6 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News

We may have thousands of talented developers under our roof, but nothing beats the scale of the open source community — where programmers around the world volunteer their expertise to collaborate virtually in the name of tackling some of today’s toughest computing challenges.

Apache Software Foundation


That’s why we’re becoming a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation, the non-profit that provides support for open source projects like the Apache HTTP server (which powers much of the Yahoo! network and has for more than 10 years), Lucene (the search software widely used on the Web), and Hadoop (which lets developers easily write and run applications that process massive amounts of data). All of these are community-driven efforts that will help define the future of web services.

We’re a big believer in giving back to this community After all, it could be the source of the next big breakthrough. You may recall that we recently unleashed a supercomputer, which researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are using as their distributed computing playground. We also have several engineers actively contributing to Apache’s Hadoop. In fact, we’re the project’s largest contributor and were so impressed with its potential, that we hired its founder, Doug Cutting, who’s also a VP at Apache.

We’ve been a huge open source beneficiary and hope our support of Apache will continue to improve the quality and expand the usage of critical software that will propel the entire industry.

Jay Kistler
VP, Systems, Tools and Services
Search & Advertising Technology Group

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6 Comments Add your own

Comment alex_mayorga | December 14th, 2007 at 9:05 am

Kudos to Y! on coughing the dough to sponsor Apache.

Comment gag | December 16th, 2007 at 6:25 am

this is good
this will help people from across the globe come together and collaborate creating useful and interesting applications for global users

Comment Otis Gospodnetic | December 16th, 2007 at 7:36 am

+1!

Comment axelilly | December 17th, 2007 at 8:00 am

Thanks for getting behind ASF with both your dollar and employment support. I will definitely recommend people to use your services even more now. Keep up the good work!

Comment Lucy | December 21st, 2007 at 4:58 am

This is excellent news

Comment Mark Guadalupe | July 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pm

Soon, authentication of identity on Airports will be on OpenID, count on that in x amount of years ;)

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