Earlier today Pentaho announced support for Apache Hadoop – read about it here. There are many reasons we are doing this: 1. Hadoop lacks graphical design tools – Pentaho provides plug-able design tools. 2. Hadoop is Java - Pentaho’s technologies are Java. 3. Hadoop needs embedded ETL – Pentaho Data Integration is easy to embed. 4. Pentaho’s open source model enables us to provide technology with great pric ...