Is this announcement from NCR more bad news for HYSL?
______NCR's Teradata Database To Run On NT______
NCR Corp. yesterday disclosed that its Teradata data
warehousing database is available on Windows NT-based
systems from Compaq, Dell Computer, and Hewlett-Packard.
Teradata is as powerful and scalable a data warehousing
solution as is available. For example, Teradata can scale
from 10 Gbytes to more than 100 terabytes on Windows NT,
depending on system configuration. Its greatest weakness to
date has been its proprietary nature. Until yesterday's
announcement, Teradata ran only on NCR's Unix.
NCR says it now gives Teradata customers flexibility and
choice in many respects. Teradata is available on NT- or
Unix-based operating systems (as well as Sun Solaris when
Intel ships the 64-bit Merced chip); servers from NCR,
Compaq, Dell, or HP; and is supported by many more
application and tool vendors and channel partners. NCR says
Teradata will continue to excel for all aspects of the data
warehouse, including reporting, analyzing, and predicting
data. It's also well-suited for complex ad hoc queries,
multiple concurrent users, and system availability.
According to William Eisenman, NCR's senior VP of computer
systems, Teradata has always competed with data warehousing
solutions from other vendors, but now it has enough guns to
win. "We always competed with IBM and Oracle," says
Eisenman, "just not with a full arsenal of products."
Dave
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