Comment by nl

Like I mentioned, anyone doing proper Engineering (as in, professional liability) will have the same level of confidence in a number coming out of your Hadoop system as they would in a number their colleague Charlie calculated on a napkin at the bar after two beers. Same goes for people in the pharma/biomolecular/chemical industries, oil and gas, mining etc etc.

What are you talking about?

I personally know people working in mining, oil/gas as well as automotive engineering (which you mentioned previously). All rely on Hadoop. I'm sure I could find you some in the other fields too.

Are you seriously thinking Hadoop isn't used outside web companies or something?

Terradata sells Hadoop now, because people are migrating datawarehouses off their older systems. This isn't web stuff, it is everything the business owns.