As part of my keynote preparation at Hadoop Summit (organized by Yahoo) next week, I started to think through what I will say... I could advertise IBM, but I know how much people love "commercials" :) So I am going to go philosophical.
Hadoop was born in the web world, on-line properties. I call this the "T" use-cases, where the technology was born. Enterprise use cases, where the hadoop community will make money, is different. I call these the "M" use cases, for money. So the question is, what is the intersection and how large it is? And which way will it go, will the intersection increase or decrease?
Is it this at t = 0 (now)?
or is it this?
I will argue that based on what I have seen, the intersection is extremely high... Hence the latter.
However, I will also argue that if it drifts apart because the constituencies are different, then it is extremely dangerous. And I will argue that we as a community need to do a few things to ensure that the drift apart does not happen.
See you at the summit..
Anant, this is an intriguing post. Wish I could be a fly on the wall! My offhand reaction to the substance is that the overlap gets greater to the extent the enterprise data challenges to the right are re-imagined through a new interface that is social. We see that emerging in government right? I bet you have more great examples.
Good models to think about in the meantime.
Posted by: LaVonne Reimer | June 24, 2011 at 09:14 AM
Thanks LaVonne, there will be a video feed I hope. Nonetheless, your point is very well taken, I will try to reference your comment during the pitch :)
Posted by: Anant Jhingran | June 27, 2011 at 10:54 AM