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Excerpt from Curt Monash's take on ODP:

"Hortonworks, IBM, EMC Pivotal and others have announced a project called “Open Data Platform” to do … well, I’m not exactly sure what. Mainly, it sounds like:

•  An attempt to minimize the importance of any technical advantages Cloudera or MapR might have. 
• A face-saving way to admit that IBM’s and Pivotal’s insistence on having their own Hadoop distributions has been silly. 
• An excuse for press releases. 
• A source of an extra logo graphic to put on marketing slides."

Also see Who Asked for an Open Data Platform? (Merv Adrian/Gartner Blog)

Hadoop: And then there were three | DBMS 2 : DataBase Management System Services