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Channel Register: On Open Source Data Warehousing

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 12, 2005

“YI greeted with some scepticism the initial launch of Greenplum
earlier this year and was unconvinced about the future of an Open
Source data warehousing model. Nevertheless, the company has pushed
ahead with its plans and has made a number of significant
advances.

“To begin with, it has simplified its nomenclature, which was
previously confusing. Now there is just Bizgres, which is the Open
Source platform and, sometime this autumn, there will be Bizgres
MPP (massively parallel processing), which will be Greenplum’s high
performance appliance (that is, with integrated hardware) and is a
chargeable version of Bizgres…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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