Will the Open Data Platform Initiative (OPEA) Go the Way of ODPI ?

Flashback to February 2015. That’s when the Open Data Platform initiative (ODPi) was announced by the now defunct Pivotal Labs (acquired by VMware which has since been acquired by Broadcom), Hortonworks (acquired by Cloudera), IBM and others.

Its purpose was to standardize the versions of Apache Hadoop and Apache Ambari used by major Hadoop platform…