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Yet another example of Megacorp attempting to swallow smaller fish (Tableau), which showed a great example of leading the market with something innovative and h
by conqrr 7y ago
Yet another example of Megacorp attempting to swallow smaller fish (Tableau), which showed a great example of leading the market with something innovative and high quality. I haven't used PowerBI, but I have a feeling already that this is going to work great for Microsoft.
- algorithmsRcool 7y agoBut isn't Tableau owned by Salesforce now? That evens the playing field some. Also, this is a free and now open source tool from Microsoft Research that is independent of PowerBI.
- manigandham 7y agoTableau did very well and was acquired by Salesforce. Looker went to Google, Periscope went to Sisense, and there are still dozens of new upstarts. I don't see how a free open-source visualization library is going to harm these companies, if anything it should help new startups with their own products.
- nerdponx 7y agoAlso it's open source, which Tableau is not.
- aaomidi 7y agoAre you finding a way to complain about an open source tool? Really?
- _bxg1 7y agoTableau's licensing model/architecture is fairly draconian. You can't even test it out for free without giving them public access to all the data you use to test, and you can't embed it in a web app without having a dedicated Tableau server process backing it. It's possible these constraints make sense for enormous enterprise customers, but they make it impractical for small companies.
- prepend 7y agoThey have a 30 day eval that’s pretty decent for testing.
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