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It Ain’t Easy Making Money in Open Source:? Thoughts on the Hortonworks's IPO Filling: Dave Kellogg’s in-depth look at the Hortonworks’s filling for IPO, a comparison with RedHat’s model, and a definitely interesting hypothesis and con

Dave Kellogg’s in-depth look at the Hortonworks’s filling for IPO, a comparison with RedHat’s model, and a definitely interesting hypothesis and conclusion:

While Hadoop and big data are unarguably huge trends driving the industry and while the future of Hadoop looks very bright indeed, on reading the Hortonworks S-1, the reader is drawn to the inexorable conclusion that it’s hard to make money in open source, or more crassly, it’s hard to make money when you give the shit away.

Others:

• Gartner’s Merv Adrian
• InfoWorld’s Yves de Montcheuil
• myself

Original title and link: It Ain’t Easy Making Money in Open Source:? Thoughts on the Hortonworks’s IPO Filling (NoSQL database?myNoSQL)

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