Hortonworks to gobble Budapest-based SequenceIQ

Hortonworks decided it needed an automated tool to launch Hadoop clusters in the cloud, or any environment supporting Docker containers, and one buy of SequenceIQ later, ’tis done. The loss-making slinger of enterprise Apache Hadoop is to consume the Budapest-based open source developer of rapid deployment tools, for an …

[Alistair]

Umm.

The sling tool might be nice for dolts that want to stuff things in clouds.

Enterprise folks want Periscope. Yesterday.

Yes, that's the "grumpy bastard" icon.

[Anonymous Coward]

Think Spark...

First XASecure was a bad buy. They should have asked for their money back.

But Hortonworks lacks Spark credibility.

Launching Hortonworks in the cloud is secondary.