On a related note - anyone getting serious with Hadoop can run it on Amazon's EC2 service. http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=

On a related note - anyone getting serious with Hadoop can run it on Amazon's EC2 service. http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=873 http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?ex... Hadoop is packaged up as an image for EC2, so it's pretty quick to get going.