[rbranson]

I still assert that there's a difference between internal prototyping and public release. Microsoft is JUST NOW releasing Dryad. It doesn't matter if they were talking about it for 50 years, what matters is the implementation and availability.

I understand that it's more than just Hadoop.NET. Perhaps I broad brushed, but fundamentally, these are tweaks from what exists. I am not saying that it is purposeless, but I am saying is that I expect more from Microsoft. In order to justify the cost of purchasing Microsoft products, it must create an order of magnitude increase in value, which I'm not seeing.

In essence: neat, but marginal.

[sgk284]

Ah, see there's the confusion. Dryad has been used internally since day one, I didn't even know you could get it outside of Microsoft. I don't think it was initially intended to be a commercial project, but more of a "We do billions of processing tasks a day, here's a way for us to do it faster and cheaper."

Anyway, yea I agree... it's definitely not as earth-shattering as MapReduce was. It has some neat integration with other Microsoft technologies but I never really thought of it as a commercial product.

I don't know why people are down voting you. You had valid points and concerns. I voted you back up to help out a bit (you shouldn't lose karma over a perfectly legitimate discussion on the pros and cons of a technology)