Hortonworks will be a $1 billion company within 4 years, says CEO — Tech News and Analysis

Big data valuation math

"“Our first goal is to be able to manage half of the world’s Hadoop by 2017 and in parallel we can clearly be a billion dollar company by 2017 to 2018,” he said.

The sheer size of the job feeds opportunity. “The volume of data, the growth of data across the enterprise, the thesis is this explosion of data will be managed in Hadoop, then there’s the battleground of who in Hadoop will do it.”"

Hortonworks will be a $1 billion company within 4 years, says CEO — Tech News and Analysis