I imagine they are buying the expertise in managing the transactional system rather than the IP itself. Operationally running a transactional system is a diffe

I imagine they are buying the expertise in managing the transactional system rather than the IP itself. Operationally running a transactional system is a different ballgame for these OLAP players. (of course what they're not getting is scale readiness.. it's not like these companies have anything resembling RDS level customer workloads)