The Open Data Platform’s reorg aims to assuage criticism about untoward vendor control over the initiative to create a consistent baseline Hadoop distribution.
After major criticism within the Hadoop community about its nature and aims, Open Data Platform — an initiative to create a reference-standard Hadoop distribution for others to build from — announced Monday it will now be hosted at the Linux Foundation as a Collaborative Project. The goal with this new organizational structure is to ameliorate the perception that the ODP Initiative is vendor-owned and -controlled, rather than just participated in by Hadoop vendors among many others.
Read more at InfoWorld
