The Hortornworks staff have taken over, literally climbing over the Cloudera staff. Most Clouderans were hoodwinked into accepting other roles that were either demotions or roles that needed to be matched or where staff needed career aspirations or strong motivation. Luckily everyone was smart and secured second or even third sources of income while they pivoted away from the environment. Nobody wants to watch over their back every 2-3 months when we all came from a place where we had a minimum of 5, to 6, or 10 years of stability. Today they have lost significant market share, compared to Databricks. We used to call Databricks Snowbricks, but both Databricks and Snowflake eat the market alive. There are dozens upon dozens of major organizations that all use Databricks or Snowflake. Whenever I run into a Cloudera client, they are also customers of the other platforms, and/or migrating to them. Essentially CDP offers now what these two entities were already offering, and while that is not completely true, most of the necessity of the broader data ecosystem, data components, and services can be accounted for in a half dozen different ways in the cloud afforded by the flexibility that Cloud providers offer. The reality is that organizations do not need to put all of the eggs in one basket with Cloudera.
