I reckon a lot of Hadoop users would balk at calling it Enterprise Software, but sure ;). I think the criteria for using Hadoop is nothing to do with how many

I reckon a lot of Hadoop users would balk at calling it Enterprise Software, but sure ;). I think the criteria for using Hadoop is nothing to do with how many machines you have, and everything to do with how big you expect your data to grow. There are a lot of startups these days dealing with massive amounts of data (or at least data which will scale), so I'd argue that it probably is hacker news. Given recent improvements we're looking at implementing Gearman at Last.fm as well as Hadoop, for completely different tasks. As I said, apples and oranges.