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Welcome to the most exciting and important enterprise software market in the last three decades.
And congratulations on your first Hadoop appliance. Despite your original skepticism, putting real computing power in the hands of everybody is already improving the way people store, process and analyze data. This will have a major impact on our society.
When we built the first Hadoop systems, we estimated that hundred of thousands of business would justify the investment in Hadoop once they understood the benefits.
Next year alone, we project that over 10000 new businesses will come to that understanding. Over the next decade, the growth of big data and Hadoop will continue in logarithmic leaps. Hadoop literacy is already becoming as fundamental a skill for computer engineers and data analysts as Java or SQL.
We look forward to responsible competition in efforts to distribute this a global open source technology to the world. And we appreciate the magnitude of your commitment.
Because what we doing is increasing social capital by enhancing organizational and business capabilities to gain new insights and better understand the world.
Welcome to the task.
The Hadoop Community.
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