Here is a bit of interesting history that I bet few people know about.<p>Doug Cutting worked on VTwin at Apple long before he wrote Lucene. This was a codename for Apple's search technology they were building into the OS. I knew about it because at the time I was building computer labs for my college and bought a lot of Apple hardware (about a million dollars worth) and my rep added me to the private beta.<p>Many years later, when I saw the Lucene project being worked on and saw that Doug was behind it, I immediately reached out to him and asked him if he was interested in joining the Jakarta group, as I thought this would be a great addition to our growing community.<p>Needless to say, the rest is history, but I feel like if nobody had reached out to Doug, he may not have gotten as much exposure and may not have been motivated to start the rest of the amazing projects that he's worked on, including Hadoop.<p>=)<p>[1] <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+vtwin+codename" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+vtwin+codename</a>