As previously noted, I think MapReduce is a big deal. Tonight I chatted with MapReduce's most famous non-fan, database management legend Mike Stonebraker, and he laid out his reasons for not liking MapReduce. However, it's far from clear that those objections apply to all MapReduce implementations. While they are quite plausible about Hadoop, they seem less applicable to Greenplum's and Aster Data's new database-integrated MapReduce implementations. And so, as much as I admire Mike, I'll have to disagree with him on this one, and suggest that MapReduce should be seriously considered in at least the four overlapping application domains where it already has traction:
Curt Monash is a leading analyst of and strategic advisor to the software industry. Praised by Lawrence J. Ellison for his "unmatched insight into technology and marketplace trends," Curt was the software/services industry's #1 ranked stock analyst while at PaineWebber, Inc., where he served as a First Vice President until 1987. He subsequently co-founded Evernet, Inc., a $40 million networking systems integrator. Since 1990, he has owned and operated Monash Research, an analysis and advisory firm covering software-intensive sectors of the technology industry. In that period he also has been co-founder, president, or chairman of several other technology startups.
Curt has served as a strategic advisor to many well-known firms, including Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, AOL, CA, and Netezza. Curt earned a Ph.D. in mathematics (Game Theory) from Harvard University. He has held faculty positions in mathematics, economics and public policy at Harvard, Yale, and Suffolk universities.
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