I tend to think of interoperability as a gradient. The old industry stalwart from the 1990's is what I'd call "runtime interoperability", wherein you could write a Java EE application, deploy it on a Java EE application server, and (with a questionable amount of tweaking), get it to operate. SQL was...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife After a while you get really tired of dealing with companies that literally hold you at hostage, and again with Google, we find ourselves banned from the Google index again, this time for cloaking. The only problem, there isn’t any cloaking going on, and Google wh...

Because of the enormous developer and user activity around Hadoop, it has grown into a formidable piece of software.  Finding bugs in your Map/Reduce programs can be hard, since there are so many different software components involved in carrying out your job.  However, Hadoop can be confi...

Yahoo’s troubles and a recent Microsoft acquisition could be bad news for open source software that enables “internet-scale” computing. Hadoop is a project to build an open source version of the infrastruture that Google uses to process data. It provides a huge filesystem that can ...