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This should read "NSA mimics Google, pissed off Oracle and Senators react. Google has never expressly disapproved of Cassandra, Hadoop, HBase or any other Big T

• jaysignorello 14y ago
  Might also help with recruitment in the NSA for top developers who prefer to work on an open source stack.
  • rhizome 14y ago
    Might help, but they don't really need it, seeing as SELinux is an NSA project.
    • sp332 14y ago
      One layer (open-source kernel w/security extensions) does not a stack make.
      • rhizome 14y ago
        The NSA has no need to restrict itself to anything like a stack. My point is that you can work on open source stuff there.
• rdtsc 14y ago
  I can almost guarantee that. It is always another vendor that pulls the strings. It comes with litigation threats, lobby efforts etc. It happens for small stuff, it definitely happens for multi-million dollar items.
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• protomyth 14y ago
  I would bet it is not Oracle. The alternatives suggested are not ones Oracle would suggest. I will bet it is one of the DC consulting firms that do big business with the government. I would imagine they have a pitch going for NoSQL / Cloud and this is seen as a threat. There is quite a bit of money in integration with the government. If you seriously want to be disgusted with the government, go look at how much is spent on consulting firms. Including, I kid you not, management firms that provide managers for projects inside the government. It gets worse when you realize that employees are supposed to do that stuff, but hire consultants to do the actual work.
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  • jbooth 14y ago
    Why wouldn't I be more upset with the lobbyists and consultants? They're the ones getting rich off of lying and gladhanding. The government employees are just trying to get through the day. They have a billion processes to make sure they're not getting kickbacks or a fraction of the lobbyists's pay. Sounds like your beef is more with corruption than it is with government.
    • protomyth 14y ago
      I'm not sure how you missed that I was not happy about the consulting firms. I am very unhappy money is spent do to lobbying / power players to feed the consulting firms around the beltway that are hired to do the jobs government employees were hired to do. It isn't individual corruption, it is the whole system of how government works in DC.
  • Symmetry 14y ago
    There used to be an office devoted to providing Congress with unbiased information about technology, but it was eventually shut down because "Congress is spending millions of dollars on itself" makes for a good soundbite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessment
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• tzs 14y ago
  Why would Oracle want the DOD to use Cassandra or HBase?
  • neurotech1 14y ago
    They dont. I was suggesting that Google haven't objected to other Big Table implementations, such as HBase, so why would they start now? Oracle NoSQL is now a product. http://www.oracle.com/NoSQLDatabase http://www.oracle.com/NoSQLDatabase
    • neurotech1 14y ago
      That's the link they advertise, but doesn't work http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/nosql/overview/index.html http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/nosql/overview/in...
      • msellout 14y ago
        It's weird. The Oracle site has many dead links, esp. for Java docs.
    • sses 14y ago
      What reason would Google have to object anyway? Bigtable isn't open source so there's no benefit in shutting down work on Accumulo - the man-hours are not going to go into Bigtable instead.
    • adventureful 14y ago
      That's a dead link.