Yeah, you are right; look at companies in the hadoop eco system: cloudera, hortonworks, mapr. They are just burning the cash; most of the money comes from the s

Yeah, you are right; look at companies in the hadoop eco system: cloudera, hortonworks, mapr. They are just burning the cash; most of the money comes from the services/consulting. This will succeed if one dominates the sector, the way Redhat does in the area of enterprise linux.