That's where we disagree. You're taking some pretty radical jumps to get to the conclusion you want. Let's assume for a second that you're right, and EMR someho

That's where we disagree. You're taking some pretty radical jumps to get to the conclusion you want. Let's assume for a second that you're right, and EMR somehow kills an entire company (who sells much more than just a Cloud offering). This has absolutely no bearing on the survival of an open source project. Yes, Cloudera employs developers who's sole job is to work on Hadoop, but there are a ton of people who work on and contribute to Hadoop outside of both Cloudera & Hortonworks (e.g. Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba, ..., ..., ...) It's equally outrageous to assume that the developers at these companies would somehow just completely lose all passion and willingness to carry the project forward if they lost their job. The reason a lot of people at Cloudera & Hortonworks are there is because they were contributing to the project long before they were employees. Hadoop isn't going anywhere. It may become less relevant or more relevant based on how things play out and/or new projects coming to fruition, but the project will be around for a long time. Lastly, the project "Hadoop" is nothing like it was back 8 years ago. The project continues to evolve and projects born out of it are essentially tacked onto it (e.g. Flink, Spark, Kudu, HBase, Presto/Drill/Hive/Impala).