Yahoo! becomes Platinum Sponsor of Apache Software

jschauma writes: Yahoo! published a press release, announcing that "it has become a platinum sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)." In their company blog, Yahoo! points out their particular interest in Lucene as well as Hadoop and that they have hired Doug Cutting, creator of both projects and VP at Apache. (Lucene powers the search on Wikipedia; Yahoo! also provides hosting capacity to Wikimedia.)