From the article: If you want to get your hands on an open source version of some of Google's core technologies, maybe you should ask Yahoo. Yahoo has emerged

From the article: If you want to get your hands on an open source version of some of Google's core technologies, maybe you should ask Yahoo. Yahoo has emerged as one of a major sponsor of Hadoop, an open source project that aims to replicate Google's techniques for storing and processing large amounts of data distributed across hundreds or thousands of commodity PCs.