Proprietary Hadoop Is a Losing Strategy
Matt Asay (10gen) for ReadWrite adding to the long discussion around EMC’s Pivotal HD announcement:
EMC has seemingly bottomless resources to throw at Hadoop, and every incentive to do so. It’s a smart, highly successful company and no doubt will prove successful with Pivotal HD. However, I can’t see it ever dominating an open-source infrastructure market with a proprietary distribution. Open source is the foundation for today’s most interesting markets, from Big Data to mobile to cloud computing. It’s unlikely that EMC will somehow stem this tide with a proprietary product, no matter its short- term performance or functionality advantages.
While I’ve linked to different perspectives about this topic, I’m not sure anyone outside our bubble actually came to a conclusion.
- Dan Woods (Forbes): Why SQL Matters, the Limits of Open Source, and Other Lessons of EMC Greenplum’s Pivotal HD
- Matthew Aslett (the451group): What It Means to Be “all In” on Hadoop
- Michael Hausenblas (MapR): Hadoop: What Matters Are Open and Standardized Interfaces
- Merv Adrian (Gartner): Open Source “Purity”, Hadoop, and Market Realities
- Steve Loughran: Hadoop Distributions: If There Is a Problem in the Hadoop JARs, How Are You Going to Fix It?
- Shaun Connolly (Hortonworks): Did EMC Just Say Fork You To The Hadoop Community?
What I know, though, is that EMC is benefiting from this. A lot. Three weeks ago, I wasn’t reading anything about EMC and Hadoop. Today all major websites have at least a couple of articles about it.
Original title and link: Proprietary Hadoop Is a Losing Strategy (©myNoSQL)
via: http://readwrite.com/2013/03/12/proprietary-hadoop-is-a-losing-strategy
