JavaScript Console and Excel Coming to Hadoop
Alex Popescu (myNoSQL) has pointers to news of Hadoop on Windows Azure. Opens Hadoop up to Javascript developers and Excel/PowerPivot users.
Alex captures the winning strategy for new technologies when he says:
Think of integration with familiar tools and frameworks as a huge adoption accelerator.
What would it look like to add configurable merging on PowerPivot? (I may have to get a copy of MS Office 2010.)