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Oh man this is huge. Are you guys opening Chorus and the Pivotal HD stuff too? I'd be shorting HP stock right now, because Vertica just lost all of its appeal. Teradata and it's Hadoop H-SQL or whatever must be shaking in their boots too. Are you guys going to attempt to upstream this or is it forked to the point of no return?

I'd love to work on a project like this but I've got no PGSQL experience (though I have worked on HFT both with KDB+ and writing a fairly decent functional knock-off operating in production and I bet the distribution and data set problems were similar). How is EMC to work for as a parent company?




Chorus already is open source: https://github.com/Chorus/chorus


> Are you guys opening Chorus and the Pivotal HD stuff too?

I'm not sure where Chorus and PHD fit into the picture -- the latter is I believe a distribution of Hadoop that we curate.

> Are you guys going to attempt to upstream this or is it forked to the point of no return?

Too early to say.

> How is EMC to work for as a parent company?

EMC is entirely hands off, in my experience. Pivotal runs itself. Best job I've ever had by a wide margin.




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