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I’ve had Teradata on the phone yesterday, maybe will talk about that later. For now, here’s what Curt Monash has to say about what he heard from them: Teradata’s future product strategy.

• Single DBMS, capable of meeting all analytic needs while running in a single instance, usually running on …
• … proprietary hardware …
• … built from conservatively-chosen parts.

His update was all triggered by Teradata’s acquisition of Kickfire, which I entirely forgot to blog about.

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