According to a recent Techcrunch post, Yahoo, Hp and Intel are about to announce something big today.
Given the actors involved and the recent move of other Internet big players (Google App Engin, Amazon Webservices…), we can guess it will deal with cloud computing : Yahoo supporting the open source distributed computing Hadoop, it would be a smart move to provide an open source platform with the help of strong partners for the material side.
Stay tuned!
Update : my guess was right, it is about Cloud Computing. The three companies just announced they are launching a “research test bed” around cloud computing. It will be about 6 centers of excellence, which will be able to test applications at Internet scale, thanks to Yahoo’s open source infrastructure (Hadoop and Pig) and Intel’s and Hp’s platform technologies.
