Companies looking on open source Hadoop development before they deploy the data processing system are like characters from Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, says analyst Gartner.

The indecision of the tragic characters in the play is now being played out by those companies not moving to try out Hadoop and big data solutions in general, said Gartner analyst Merv Adrian in a presentation to this week’s Teradata Partners user conference in Nashville.

He said: “Waiting for Godot reminds me of IT, big data investments are on the rise but it is still surprising how many organisations are still waiting. In Godot, one character says ‘let’s go’, and the other says ‘no, let’s wait a little longer’, and it goes on.”

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