A core development group at Yahoo is being given venture capital backing and will be spun off to further the rapid enterprise-style development of Hadoop. Within a few days, “something over 20″ core committers and architects of Hadoop code will move off the Yahoo campus in Sunnyvale, Calif., into offices nearby to form Hortonworks, an independent company, said Eric Baldeschweiler, Yahoo’s VP of software engineering for Hadoop.
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