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I'm not in systems so I can't really make claims to that. (Obviously you're right about my getting the containers history wrong.) That said, spanner seems like
by tedks 11y ago
I'm not in systems so I can't really make claims to that. (Obviously you're right about my getting the containers history wrong.)
That said, spanner seems like it does what it needs to do far better than any academic system. For example. And there are many, many other academic pursuits that are totally ignored by industry.
This can't be just narrow mindedness -- if there was any utility in, say, most of the type theory that's directly pumped from academia into Haskell, startups would be using it. But they aren't. They're not using that, they're not using academic database concepts, they're not using anything from academia. And virtually everything academic is open sourced at some point, so it's not like that's an excuse.
(Are Plan 9 or Solaris academic systems? They're both the result of industrial R&D groups...)
- techdragon 11y agoPlan 9 is a mostly academic project. It was born out of the research lab and never really became a "product". Solaris was a 30 year series of successive engineering projects focused on providing valuable concrete improvements to what was previously just an academic project, the early unix releases were definitely academic regardless of their future commercial impact.
- tedks 11y agoThere's a very, very large difference between corporate research and actual academia. The motivation of the people involved are totally different. I wouldn't consider either project "academic" even if they were primarily conducted in industrial research labs.