At last, big-data fans, we've got some word of the seemingly-missing-but-not-forgotten Windows Server implementation of Hadoop promised by Microsoft and Hortonworks.
I'd started wondering whether Microsoft's repeated "no comments" about the project's whereabouts - the most recent of which I received just a couple weeks ago, at the end of September 2012 - meant Microsoft had decided to go cloud-only with Hadoop. But it turns out the Windows Server version of the Microsoft-Hortonworks Hadoop implementation is still around, and is just in private preview.
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