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Is it a wise career move for software developers and asipring ones to establish a concentration on open source development tools and applications? Amanda McPherson argues that it is, especially since more and more corporations are using OSS platforms and applications. I tend to agree, although as is true with all investments made toward career advancement, it's wisest to tread carefully. In particular, expertise with platform software, especially emerging platform software, looks to have more and more market value.

If you read this blog regularly, you're familiar with an ultra-important open source project, sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation: Hadoop. Hadoop is a software framework able to take advantage of huge clusters of computers to produce fast results for queries and more. Thursday night, in San Francisco, GigaOm held a meet-and-greet with stars from the Hadoop project, and stars who benefit: Doug Cutting, head of Hadoop; Eric Baldeschwieler, VP of grid computing at Yahoo; Larry Heck, VP of search and advertising sciences at Yahoo; and Chad Walters, director of engineering at Powerset. OStatic staff live blogged from the event from 6pm on, Pacific time. Check out what the Hadoop stars had to say.