Baidu now an Official Sponsor of Hypertable

[Doug Judd]

Those of you who have been on this list for any length of time will have noticed the many contributions and sustained effort put into the project by Donald (Liu Keija), Phoenix, and Swin Wang.  As it turns out, these guys are from Baidu, China's largest search engine, and they are now officially sponsoring the Hypertable project.  Thank you, guys, for the tremendous effort and the high quality contributions you've made to this project.  We look forward to continued collaboration with you as we turn Hypertable into the world's most high performance, massively scalable database.

Here's the blurb from our Sponsors Page:

Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU), the leading internet search services provider in China has decided to become an official sponsor by adopting Hypertable across the company and committing a team of engineers and numerous servers to use and improve Hypertable. Baidu's decision came after months of evaluating Hypertable and other alternative solutions. We believe that Baidu's commitment further validates the quality and progress of the project and bodes well for the long term viability of Hypertable.

- Doug