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Srivas: Cloudera and Hortonworks are disingenuous about their open source control
“I think that's a bit disingenuous on Hortonworks and Cloudrass part to say that Because they would like to, so the, here's the dirty little truth about open source software, open source vendors, right? I love open source as long as it's my open source and not …”
Public markets rightly penalized Cloudera for lagging on cloud software transition
“I believe that Cloudera could be a lot bigger and a lot more successful but the market has been penalizing Cloudera, rightly so, for not capturing the cloud's components as sooner.”
Cloudera uses proprietary management tools to prevent commoditization by large vendors
“Because we've got some management monitoring administrative tools That the big, well-capitalized vendors can't simply pick up and use against us. We've got a reason for customers to come and talk to us. It's not really about lock-in. It's about lock-out for IB…”
Majority of big data market spend will go to applications, not platforms
“The lion's share of the money spent in the market Is going to be for apps, not for the platform.”
Intel acquired an 18 percent equity stake in Cloudera for $740 million
“Intel spent seven hundred forty million dollars and acquired an 18% stake in Cloudera.”
Cloudera refuses to acquire companies or products that compete with open source
“So in general, we won't acquire stuff that competes with existing open source, because that would be crazy, right?”
IBM began offering open-source alternatives within 2.5 years of Cloudera's founding
“At two and a half years, IBM was looking at what we were doing and offering their own open source alternatives, so.”
Cloudera reached a $700M annual revenue run rate by late 2019
“When I left a few months ago, Cloudera's annual run rate in terms of revenue was about seven hundred million dollars per year.”
AXA US builds its analytics infrastructure on a Cloudera Hadoop stack
“So the one that we've got here in the U.S., it's primarily a Cloudera Hadoop stack that we've used a blueprint that was essentially blessed by our brethren over in French, in France and with that, we've got R and Python and Spark. We use some Dataiku along the…”