Red Hat's big sale, disappointing exits of Hadoop-based startups and Pivotal show how public clouds like AWS affect business models of open source-focused firms
TL;DR: If the cloud didn't eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects?
Hortonworks and Cloudera announce all-stock merger valuing the new company at $5.2B; the two companies helped commercialize Hadoop open-source big data software
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Cask Data, a startup that builds solutions to run big data analytics services based on Hadoop, joins Google Cloud; terms not disclosed; Cask had raised $40M
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Hortonworks introduces DataFlow, acquires Apache NiFi-backer Onyara
Hortonworks is betting big on Apache NiFi, acquiring Onyara, the commercial entity behind it, and releasing DataFlow, a separate subscription alongside the Hadoop-based Hortonworks Data Platform.
Hortonworks acquires SequenceIQ for rapid Hadoop deployment tools, plans to donate tech to Apache Software Foundation after integration
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EMC's Pivotal open sources big data tech, joins newly formed Hadoop-focused Open Data Platform with Hortonworks, IBM, GE, Verizon, Infosys, others
Pivotal open sources its Hadoop and Greenplum tech, and then some — Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz at Structure Data 2014. Credit: Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz / Jakub Mosur