From 8eea90db42ba0bd2e63c6a129a39ae9c97b8574c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zooko <>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:38:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add some related projects

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  * [cleversafe](http://cleversafe.org) is a company that makes a distributed data storage grid; some of the company's projects are released under the GNU General Public Licence v2
 
- * [fluidinfo](http://fluidinfo.com/) is a stealth-mode startup that is apparently doing something creative in the realm of distributed storage.  The founder, Terry Jones, is or was a researcher in the field of artificial life and genetic algorithms.  Here's [his PhD thesis](http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/dissertations-and-proposals/terry.pdf).  fluidinfo hasn't released any source code.
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- * [mogilefs](http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/) is an open source decentralized data storage grid in which files are replicated to a number of storage servers.  It is written in Perl and uses MySQL.  It was written by the folks who made [LiveJournal](http://livejournal.com).  The name is an anagram for "OMG files".
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  * [GNUnet](http://gnunet.org) is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network.
 
- * [Hadoop](http://hadoop.apache.org/core/) is inspired by the Google File System and mapreduce, is supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers.
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+ * [Hadoop](http://hadoop.apache.org/core/) is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Java, supported by Yahoo, and seems to have broad acceptance among programmers (at least compared to the alternatives).
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+ * [mogilefs](http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/) is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in Perl and uses MySQL.  It was written by the folks who made [LiveJournal](http://livejournal.com).  The name is an anagram for "OMG files".
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+ * [Kosmos Distributed File System](http://kosmosfs.sourceforge.net/) is open source, inspired by the Google File System, written in C++, and recently announced some sort of compatibility with Hadoop.
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+# Interesting Vaporware
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+ * [fluidinfo](http://fluidinfo.com/) is a stealth-mode startup that is apparently doing something creative in the realm of distributed storage.  The founder, Terry Jones, is or was a researcher in the field of artificial life and genetic algorithms.  Here's [his PhD thesis](http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/dissertations-and-proposals/terry.pdf).  He also contributes to the Twisted Python project.  fluidinfo hasn't released any source code.
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