ON-TAP lacks a decent Kerberos stack. It is embarrassingly ancient in its support of encryption types, which makes it pretty much a non-starter for secure NFS.

Those jobs do exist. You just have to know where to find them. :)

Unless there is a mark that says "Item was bought", I'd argue that most players wouldn't know the difference between a bought or won item anyway.

This is one of the things that I think the Atlantica team really did well on. Because they have an "alternate Earth" as a background, they were allowed to present different cultures with different art styles.

The biggest problems we've seen from a monitoring perspective is that most systems really do have a hard time scaling to large levels and being usable. [A common trick (and one we employ) is to have a multi-tier monitoring system in place, where one monitoring stack monitors the monitoring stack that is actually watching the service/hosts.]

Once one gets past that hurdle, the tricky part is dealing with the "it is OK if X% of my machines are down". Most monitoring systems that I've dealt with are based around the view that they are monitoring a single host/single service and not a collection of hosts where it is OK if chunks disappear. For those types of problems, one still ends up writing a lot of custom smarts it seems.

I'm curious to know how you define a 'corporate farm'. I really hope you don't think that every Xxxx Farms, Inc. is magically part of ADM.

I see Hadoop Summit door prizes.

Who wants a turn-based RPG anymore? It's all about the flashy graphics and real-time combat.

That's why it is interesting watching to see how successful Atlantica Online is going to be (or already is?). A turn-based MMORPG sounds horrible, but they've really done a great job at game mechanics. The irony is that they likely had to do F2P because of the impressions that turn-based gives, but they are probably making money hands-over-fist with the micropayment structure they've setup. It isn't usual to hear of people who have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on it.

None of the articles say it, but they are probably talking about HBase. If this is the case, this is seriously old news.

HBase was started by the Powerset guys before being acquired by Microsoft. After the acquisition there was a lot of concern in the Hadoop community about whether the Powerset guys would be allowed to continue to contribute. They have, and as far as I can tell, the community is not particularly concerned about MS's involvement.

Kerberized NFS support is required for full NFSv4 compliance. You might be surprised to know that Linux, AIX, and NetApp (although their Kerberos support is ... lacking) all have the capability to do it. OS X has rudimentary support for v4, haven't tested its krb5 compliance.

Additionally, most stacks either out there or in development add Kerberized NFS support to v3 while they are adding v4.