“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…”