Microsoft and Open Source: The New Peanut Butter and Jelly?
May 6, 2011
Apache Solr is about to have a viable competitor if “Microsoft Makes a Big Data Play with Project Barcelona” is to be believed.
Project Barcelona is Microsoft’s (MS) group of crawlers, index server and tools working together to process and manage data across the enterprise. Per the Project’s FAQ page:
Project Barcelona is all about making enterprise metadata and enterprise data flow information available and consumable across the enterprise for those who need it most. (DBAs, ETL developers, information workers). Project Barcelona however is not a centrally controlled metadata repository in the traditional sense in that the overall design embraces the decentralized and web-like nature of the modern enterprise.
The goal of this new system is to provide non-developers with tools to aid them in their quest for managing “the modern data jungle”, which generally includes a garbled slew of MS spreadsheets, databases and SharePoint files. Think of it as a broader purposed Microsoft SharePoint Server.
There are Microsoft packages that people like, dislike but still begrudgingly use due to familiarity and despise so much they wouldn’t connect to them with a 10-ft power cord. We’ll have an idea of which category Project Barcelona may fall into when it is released for preview at the end of the summer. Get out your Solr sunscreen.
Sarah Rogers, May 6, 2011
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