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When I see headlines about Oracle and SAP worrying about their profits, I'll be more convinced that something has changed. Megavendors may not worry much about
by dgudkov 16y ago
When I see headlines about Oracle and SAP worrying about their profits, I'll be more convinced that something has changed.
Megavendors may not worry much about their profits because they don't feel yet competition from startups. However this might change soon. One of my favorite enterprise-market startups is Vertica (www.vertica.com) - the product is just brilliant. I would expect in 3-5 years Vertica and some other analytical DBMSes (ParAccel, InfoBright etc.) to became serious players on enterprise market making IBM, Oracle and MS worry about their DBMS revenues.
- Lewisham 16y agoOne thing that Veritica could learn from consumer startups is how to build a website! Their front page tells me almost nothing about what they sell or what they do. After a couple of minutes of clicking, I gave up and read the Wikipedia site instead. Palantir [1] does a much better job. [1] http://www.palantir.com http://www.palantir.com
- dgudkov 16y agoFully agree about Vertica's website - it should be redesigned for sure. The only small excuse for them is that they don't sell through website (contrary to consumer startups). Direct sales force and customer references do main part of this job (which is typical for enterprise market).