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The Data Warehouse Appliance Acquisition Wars Begin

As you all read this post, you will be well aware of Microsoft acquiring DATAllegro this morning. Congratulations to the entire DATAllegro team for this achievement. This does point out an important message to the Data warehouse industry, Data Warehouse Appliances are here to stay. There are a lot of questions that will arise from this acquisition no doubt, but what intrigues me is now that Microsoft has made its move, we have Sun-Greenplum, Microsoft-DATAllegro, HP-Neoview, IBM-Balanced Configuration, Oracle-???.

Well, the Data Warehouse Appliance acquisition is an extension of strategy that has long been anticipated. I had predicted this sort of a move last year to a few of my friends at the different appliance companies. well all my thoughts on alignment did not pave out exactly as I had said, but the acquisitions have happened and will continue.

The food news for the data hungry industry is there will be stronger solutions in the appliance space and yes look forward to it.

  Posted by kkrishnan on July 24, 2008 1:32 PM |

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