"Mr. Gates acknowledged that MapReduce was a significant technology, but he asserted that Microsoft was building its own parallel processing software, opening another front in the technological war between the two companies.
"They did MapReduce; we have this thing called Driad that's better," Mr. Gates said. "But they'll do one that's better."
Woo hoo! Dryad (they spelled it wrong) is a project started in my lab, and I was the one who named it! Wheeee!
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