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[milfmagnettt]

hey guys on break and thinking about you guys

[andreaskorn]

BIOS Konfiguration (Set 2)

Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Pro

Aktualisierung des Bios: F12

Verwendung: Bootloader Open Core für OSX 11.2.3 (BS)

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ak, 27.4.2020

[cloudofdata]

Open Source or Open Core?

Writing for SiliconAngle, Jeffrey Kelly explores the pros and cons of Open Source v Open Core through the lens of two Hadoop companies. HortonWorks is squarely in the open source camp, whilst Cloudera follows the open core path by extending Hadoop's open source heart with proprietary twiddles.

As Jeff notes, the lead granted by being able to focus effort and attention on developing specific proprietary features can be strong but may prove short-lived; the broader community is bigger, and will eventually catch up. On the other hand, the pure open source company actually needs pretty deep pockets to support its growth in the months or years before revenue-generating business materialises. Grand partnerships are great, but rarely translate quickly into significant sums of cash.

It's easy to wax philosophical about the ultimate victory of the commons and all that... but the reality today is that Cloudera has more money ($141 million since 2009, to HortonWorks' $98 million since 2011) and more visibility.

Cloudera's burn rate may also be higher... but that visibility is probably translating into paid engagements as companies scrabble to big data-ify their own products and workflows.