Microsoft is using Delta for their Fabric Lakehouse architecture and its also what OneLake is built around so now you have another massive player choosing Delta.
That’s…not exactly a winning point for Delta lake IMO.
Massive corp, with their own opaque interests and endless bodies to throw at problems has picked a favourite. That favourite being an “open” format controlled by another opaque enterprise company. I’d half expect M$ to just take it wholesale, and start modifying it to suit their own ends, until eventually the “open source” component is some skin-deep façade that completely and utterly dependent on M$ infra.
Massive corp, with their own opaque interests and endless bodies to throw at problems has picked a favourite. That favourite being an “open” format controlled by another opaque enterprise company. I’d half expect M$ to just take it wholesale, and start modifying it to suit their own ends, until eventually the “open source” component is some skin-deep façade that completely and utterly dependent on M$ infra.