There has been a rumor floating around since August (first, and subsequently, reported by Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet) that Microsoft is preparing to release its Cosmos big data system as a service on its Azure cloud platform, likely as an alternative to Hadoop. That would not only be a bold move for Microsoft, but also, probably, a smart one. We’ll get to that shortly, but first a brief history of Cosmos. It’s Microsoft’s internal big data system, used to store and process data for applications such as Bing,
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