MapR will sell
MapR will sell -- they have a lot of ARR and a captive customer base they can milk for 5-10 years. Question is -- how much will they go for? MapR fired all their sales staff a few months ago to prep for sale. They realized their technology, like Hadoop overall, is a dead end and the only thing to do is milk your captive customers for whatever you can with as few employees as possible. Perfect for some form of PE vulture capitalist.
$800 mil is a lot for MapR IMO, I guess JS was holding out for that magical billion dollar mark. I think he's going to wish he had taken it when he had the chance.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
