Hadoop Big Data Ecosystem Gets Big Boost As Hortonworks Nabs $50 Million In Fresh Financing - Forbes

Today's Hadoop Summit keynote should be interesting

"The news speaks to the health of the Hadoop ecosystem and more importantly about the speculation about the future of Hortonworks. Many in the industry were saying that Hortonworks was primed to be target for an acquisition. This funding gives Hortonworks a viable option to maintain their independence as a growing venture and gives them an alternative to a merger or acquisition.
Great news for the open source Hadoop ecosystem as both Hortonworks and Cloudera both are doing extremely well in the marketplace."

Hadoop Big Data Ecosystem Gets Big Boost As Hortonworks Nabs $50 Million In Fresh Financing - Forbes