By Merv Adrian and Nick Heudecker
In the first post in this series , I looked at the size of revenue streams for RDBMS software and maintenance/support and noted that they amount to $33B, pointing out that pure play Hadoop vendors had a high hill to climb. (I didn’t say so specifically, but in 2014, Gartner estimates that the three leading vendors generated less than $150M.)
In this post, Nick and I turn from Procurement to Plans and examine the buying intentions uncovered in Gartner surveys.