I am pretty much assuming that the Microsoft/Yahoo deal will go through, much to my chagrin. The first question I had was, what about Yahoo’s open source projects. Much as I like Google, Yahoo has always been a super open source friendly company and has pioneered support for projects like Hadoop (the open source version of MapReduce).

Turns out, I am not the only one concerned about these things. It’s the question asked by Blogspotting, others on Twitter, as well as lots of commenters on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog

Dan Reed is a Microsoft employee now, so Microsoft is definitely serious about the cloud. They haven’t figured it out yet. For that matter, neither has Yahoo really, at least not the way Google has, but a Microsoft/Yahoo combo on paper can be a wonderful foil to Google. Will it work? No idea. I am certainly skeptical.

Looking forward to seeing Google’s response to this bid. Their stock is certainly taking a beating.

Looks like Jerry Yang’s time to tear down the wall has run out

Further reading:
Microsoft is serious about the cloud too

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