[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)