Was reading the summary of a /. article ( http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1855204/oracle-proud-self-reliant-increasingly-isolated )and it got be wondering again - what is the fate of Hadoop and the JDK.
Kind of wonder what it would take for a new implementation of hadoop ( or similar implementation ) but in a different language. What if Oracle were to basically reach a point where there was the public domain Java that goes basically stagnant and a commercial version for-pay suddenly exploding the cost of your cluster beyond servers and some switches.
Sure there are some other frameworks ( MongoDB, Cassandra, probably many others ) but in the same idea as the marriage of HDFS and the map/reduce framework itself.
Would OpenJDK even be an option? I've not tried using it for anything. Then again, I just administer hadoop clusters I don't program for them ;)
