A few months ago HP acquired Vertica (http://www.vertica.com/resources/videos/ http://www.vertica.com/resources/videos/), which was founded by Mike Stonebraker

A few months ago HP acquired Vertica (http://www.vertica.com/resources/videos/ http://www.vertica.com/resources/videos/), which was founded by Mike Stonebraker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker), the inventor of PostgreSQL. Vertica is the real-time big data analytics system that Zynga is using -- it looks like HP is planning on making a push into that space.