What really annoys me is when people make public claims about things that they have clearly no clue about. Facts or the truth don’t seem to matter anymore, all that counts is bold verbiage. There could be multiple reasons for this behavior: Maybe some people are too lazy to do proper research before raising their [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Vendors'
The Flight of the Wannabees
February 18th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Tags: Business Intelligence · Gartner · Magic Quadrant · Market · Open Source · Technology · Uncategorized · Vendors
Setting the Record Straight
December 28th, 2008 · 22 Comments
Caution: Long post, but lots to say…
Not often, a vendor reacts with a blog posting to the publication of a Gartner document. Press releases, yes, and a lot, kinda like “Company XYZ announces that a leading analyst firm has placed it in the leaders quadrant of the ABC Magic Quadrant…” Rarely, though, do we see [...]
Tags: Data Integration · ETL · Gartner · Magic Quadrant · Open Source · Technology · Uncategorized · Vendors
Oracle Logo on Racks?
September 25th, 2008 · No Comments
With yesterday’s announcement of the Oracle Exadata Storage Appliance, Oracle essentially became a hardware vendor… well, sort of. With the help of their friends across Highway 101, Oracle leverages HP hardware, apparently servers and storage, Infiniband, its own 11g DBMS plus ASM and wraps it into a massively parallel database grid. So far so good. [...]
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