Hi,

if you search for "Hadoop" on Dice, you get under 400 hits. We all have no
doubt that the demand is greater. Does it mean that companies prefer to
train their personnel rather than search for hard-to-find resources? One
indication that this is true would be Cloudera's training being sold out :)
Another - Hadoop books being bestseller, which is true for Tom White's book
with 5,000 Amazon bestseller rank.

Your thoughts?

Thank you,
Mark

My guess is it's like back in the days when Linux was considered a 'bad'
option for running a production system and people would freak out when
they found out about it.  It was so new and people were just learning
what it's all about.  Today it's very mainstream but it took people a
while to figure out what to do with it.

Hadoop is very much like Linux back then.  Today people are still
figuring out what to do with it and how to solve their big data
problems.  I think many people are training internally to figure it out
aswell.  That's what we did :-)

Thanks
On 04/28/2011 08:23 PM, Mark Kerzner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if you search for "Hadoop" on Dice, you get under 400 hits. We all have no
> doubt that the demand is greater. Does it mean that companies prefer to
> train their personnel rather than search for hard-to-find resources? One
> indication that this is true would be Cloudera's training being sold out :)
> Another - Hadoop books being bestseller, which is true for Tom White's book
> with 5,000 Amazon bestseller rank.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> Thank you,
> Mark
>
>

This reminds me of the line in All the President's Men when Ben Bradlee goes "half the country never even heard the word 'Watergate'!"

Sorry couldn't resist :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: hadoopman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:18:12
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hadoop demand

My guess is it's like back in the days when Linux was considered a 'bad'
option for running a production system and people would freak out when
they found out about it.  It was so new and people were just learning
what it's all about.  Today it's very mainstream but it took people a
while to figure out what to do with it.

Hadoop is very much like Linux back then.  Today people are still
figuring out what to do with it and how to solve their big data
problems.  I think many people are training internally to figure it out
aswell.  That's what we did :-)

Thanks
On 04/28/2011 08:23 PM, Mark Kerzner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if you search for "Hadoop" on Dice, you get under 400 hits. We all have no
> doubt that the demand is greater. Does it mean that companies prefer to
> train their personnel rather than search for hard-to-find resources? One
> indication that this is true would be Cloudera's training being sold out :)
> Another - Hadoop books being bestseller, which is true for Tom White's book
> with 5,000 Amazon bestseller rank.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> Thank you,
> Mark
>
>    

In Dice terms, 99.5% have not even thought of needing a Hadoop engineer. Do
I get your drift?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Mike Nute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This reminds me of the line in All the President's Men when Ben Bradlee
> goes "half the country never even heard the word 'Watergate'!"
>
> Sorry couldn't resist :-)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hadoopman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:18:12
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Hadoop demand
>
> My guess is it's like back in the days when Linux was considered a 'bad'
> option for running a production system and people would freak out when
> they found out about it.  It was so new and people were just learning
> what it's all about.  Today it's very mainstream but it took people a
> while to figure out what to do with it.
>
> Hadoop is very much like Linux back then.  Today people are still
> figuring out what to do with it and how to solve their big data
> problems.  I think many people are training internally to figure it out
> aswell.  That's what we did :-)
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On 04/28/2011 08:23 PM, Mark Kerzner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > if you search for "Hadoop" on Dice, you get under 400 hits. We all have
> no
> > doubt that the demand is greater. Does it mean that companies prefer to
> > train their personnel rather than search for hard-to-find resources? One
> > indication that this is true would be Cloudera's training being sold out
> :)
> > Another - Hadoop books being bestseller, which is true for Tom White's
> book
> > with 5,000 Amazon bestseller rank.
> >
> > Your thoughts?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Mark
> >
> >
>
>