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Right, I got that. The question is that is this just a random name the
son happened to have given the toy, or like Dumbo, which is an elephant
character from a well known kids' story.


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-----Original Message-----
From: David Rosenstrauch [mailto:darose@darose.net]=20
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:11 AM
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Subject: Re: Hadoop name origin?

On 11/22/2009 09:58 PM, yiqi.tang@barclayscapital.com wrote:
> I read that Hadoop is named after a toy elephant. Is Hadoop just what=20
> the kid called the stuffed animal, or is Hadoop a well-known story=20
> character, like Dumbo?

It's named after the project founder's son's favorite stuffed animal.

DR
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