I'll take one in "Questions to which the answer is 'No'". Merger or no, there's a huge install base of Hadoop clusters doing useful (and not so useful) work.

I'll take one in "Questions to which the answer is 'No'". Merger or no, there's a huge install base of Hadoop clusters doing useful (and not so useful) work. Is Hadoop just another tech now? Yes. But it's not dead.