Startup companies are constantly emerging. With the internet has being a core reason for many business success stories, the latest GFS file system has now been more progress towards new technology.
Hadoop engineering is currently a division of Yahoo that is based on research papers describing two of Google's proprietary back-end software platforms, GFS file system and MapReduce. Hadoop was founded by developer Doug Cutting, and the name Hadoop came from the name of his son's yellow stuffed elephant.
The project was begun for use with Nutch, an open-source web crawler, but it took on a life of its own after Cutting was hired by Yahoo. Now there is talk that Yahoo may spin off the Hadoop division, creating a startup that offers support and services around the open-source distributed number-crunching platform.
Yahoo! Is reportedly weighing a spin-off that would be financed in part by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. The spin-off Hadoop would compete with the likes of Cloudera, and Yahoo would likely retain a stake in the company. It is uncertain whether Yahoo! will continue the idea or whether they will in turn sell the patent. For more information you can read more about it here.