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Comments on: Teradata Universe in Warsaw

sales tosh 

Posted Sunday 6th May 2007 22:30 GMT

If you trying to show us a fancy new product please save the sales-synergy-tosh for others and can the white-paper trash talk.

I'm a developer.. not a dam clueless exec - so I want to know price, imlementation examples, compatability, scalability, adabaptability... and actual real examples.

Fancy new product? 

Posted Sunday 6th May 2007 23:17 GMT

Teradata has been around for almost as long as I've been in IT (I think Teradata started in 1979); I'm surprised our commenter hasn't heard of it before.

It's sold as a datawarehouse and scalabilty is at least as good as, probably better than, mainframe DB/2 and Oracle. Price? You probably need your "clueless exec" and his/her checkbook; it targets the biggest companies/applications in the world. It's not really playing in the MySQL mass-market space but I suspect that Teradata experts drive very nice cars.

More information on its website; I guess the interesting competition is appliance or packaged datawarehouse from, eg, Netezza, DATAllegro and Kalido.

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