The very fact that Google invented MapReduce, and Microsoft didn't, says something about why Microsoft is still playing catch up trying to get basic search features to work
I don't believe this is true, and that's easy to prove: There was parallelism of SELECTs in SQL Server 2000. So there is a part of MS that is perfectly happy with the idea, even in another bit of MS isn't. They just need to talk more...
The very fact that Google invented MapReduce, and Microsoft didn't, says something about why Microsoft is still playing catch up trying to get basic search features to work
I don't believe this is true, and that's easy to prove: There was parallelism of SELECTs in SQL Server 2000. So there is a part of MS that is perfectly happy with the idea, even in another bit of MS isn't. They just need to talk more...