004 The History of Hadoop – For the Love of Data

Let me set the stage for you... It's 2003: Chicago just won the Oscar for Best Picture and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the top selling video game. Apple iPods still have scroll wheels and iTunes just started selling music for the first time. From a tech standpoint, Windows XP is all the rage as the latest Windows OS and folks with a lot of money to spend are buying PCs with a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz processor, 512MB of RAM (or maybe up to 2GB max), and an 80GB hard drive.  Oracle just released v...
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