In Dice terms, 99.5% have not even thought of needing a Hadoop engineer. Do I get your drift?
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Mike Nute <mike.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > This reminds me of the line in All the President's Men when Ben Bradlee > goes "half the country never even heard the word 'Watergate'!" > > Sorry couldn't resist :-) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: hadoopman <hadoop...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:18:12 > To: <common-user@hadoop.apache.org> > Reply-To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: Re: Hadoop demand > > My guess is it's like back in the days when Linux was considered a 'bad' > option for running a production system and people would freak out when > they found out about it. It was so new and people were just learning > what it's all about. Today it's very mainstream but it took people a > while to figure out what to do with it. > > Hadoop is very much like Linux back then. Today people are still > figuring out what to do with it and how to solve their big data > problems. I think many people are training internally to figure it out > aswell. That's what we did :-) > > Thanks > > > On 04/28/2011 08:23 PM, Mark Kerzner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > if you search for "Hadoop" on Dice, you get under 400 hits. We all have > no > > doubt that the demand is greater. Does it mean that companies prefer to > > train their personnel rather than search for hard-to-find resources? One > > indication that this is true would be Cloudera's training being sold out > :) > > Another - Hadoop books being bestseller, which is true for Tom White's > book > > with 5,000 Amazon bestseller rank. > > > > Your thoughts? > > > > Thank you, > > Mark > > > > > >
