Roaring Elephant

In the past week, trouble at Cloudera really stood out and in the context of similar problems at MapR and (somewhat less related to Big Data) Pivotal, we are devoting the entire episode to this. (Image taken from https://media.thinknum.com/articles/is-hadoop-hype-wearing-off-the-answer-may-lie-in-startups-data/) As this is a Roaring News Episode, we will discuss this story based on a number of articles we found. Cloudera has a "bad" day... The combination of some bad quarterly results and both CEO Tom Reilly and chief strategy officer and co-founder Mike Olson leaving the company have had a dramatic effect on the stock price. Now this could be an isolated incident, quickly forgotten, but in the light of similar issues at MapR (which is not a public company) and Pivotal, there does seem to be something more fundamental happening in these Open Source, venture capital fueled companies.   Looking at job listings over the years   The second article we discuss (from which we also took the image above becau