Risks? Well if you come to Hadoop World in Nov, we actually have a presentation that might help reduce some of your initial risks.
There are always risks when starting a new project. Regardless of the underlying technology, you have costs associated with failure and unless you can level set expectations you'll increase your odds of failure. Best advice... don't listen to sales critters or marketing folks. ;-) [Right Tom?] They have an agenda. ;-) > Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:11:20 +0100 > Subject: risks of using Hadoop > From: kobina.kwa...@gmail.com > To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org > > Hello, > > Please can someone point some of the risks we may incur if we decide to > implement Hadoop? > > BR, > > Isaac.