Worst URL pun ever
That’s baaaad. Although I think Linda would insist it’s “wordplay” rather than a “pun.”
I wonder whether they have any posts about M*A*S*Hups.
That’s baaaad. Although I think Linda would insist it’s “wordplay” rather than a “pun.”
I wonder whether they have any posts about M*A*S*Hups.
January 30th, 2007 at 11:37 am
[…] 2. The relational world gives very mixed signals as to how much these MPP/shared-nothing products benefit from specialized hardware. There’s certainly a consensus that customers at least want preconfigured hardware. But beyond that it gets confusing. Teradata has specialized networking. IBM is going to preconfigured generic hardware, and also mumbles about a specialized data filtering chip. Netezza has a very custom system based on FPGAs. DATallegro loves its custom Infiniband networking add-ons, but mumbles about going to standard hardware. Greenplum and Kognitio are on standard hardware, although Greenplum focuses on a quasi-appliance through Sun. (if my memory is correctly, Greenplum actually boasts at least one text-indexing customer, namely O’Reilly.) […]
January 31st, 2007 at 6:47 pm
[…] … unless you think that is inherently an oxymoron. I thought I was doing well catching and expanding on a clever pop culture reference. But the folks at columnar DBMS start-up Vertica Systems may have topped that with their slogan […]