If they are like most companies of their sort, their "exit" is to get bought, not to get revenue.
RHT, for instance, knows how to make money selling open source software and you'd better believe they are thinking 24/7 on how to survive and thrive in a Docker world.
I think of Hortonworks, Cloudera and all the "me too" Hadoop vendors that offer value-subtracted products that offer web interfaces for configuration that are antiquated in the devops age. Why go to these guys when you can get any of the Bangalore Bhangers to consult on "big data" projects. Maybe one of them will catch "the next big thing" (Mesos, Spark, whatever "worse is better" product is a little less worse than Hadop) and the rest will dry up and blow away.
Mongodb has had some success in terms of getting money in but that's the combination of (1) a product that people want to believe in and (2) doesn't really deliver, that brings in the bucks. (i.e. if the product delivered there would not be any need for consulting)
If they are like most companies of their sort, their "exit" is to get bought, not to get revenue.
RHT, for instance, knows how to make money selling open source software and you'd better believe they are thinking 24/7 on how to survive and thrive in a Docker world.
I think of Hortonworks, Cloudera and all the "me too" Hadoop vendors that offer value-subtracted products that offer web interfaces for configuration that are antiquated in the devops age. Why go to these guys when you can get any of the Bangalore Bhangers to consult on "big data" projects. Maybe one of them will catch "the next big thing" (Mesos, Spark, whatever "worse is better" product is a little less worse than Hadop) and the rest will dry up and blow away.
Mongodb has had some success in terms of getting money in but that's the combination of (1) a product that people want to believe in and (2) doesn't really deliver, that brings in the bucks. (i.e. if the product delivered there would not be any need for consulting)