Brain drain
Microsoft has been capturing the best brains in tech for 20 years. You can tell by their products what they do with them.
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Sausage.
Microsoft has bought VC-funded big-data SQL start up Metanautix, building what it’s called a data compute engine. Metanautix was founded by Google former engineering director Theo Vassilakis and ex Facebook senior software engineer Toli Lerios in 2012 and landed $7m from Sequoia Capital. Their creation was Quest, released in …
You should have used the 3 stooge pedantic grammar nazi icon. :-P
But to your point... Apache Drill is the OS spin off from Dremel. So why spend $$$$ on buying yet another NoSQL database doesn't make sense... But then again, this is Microsoft we're talking about so what do I know? (They did buy Nokia, right? ;-P )