IT-Analysis: The Comeback of WhiteCross | Linux Today

IT-Analysis: The Comeback of WhiteCross

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 12, 2004

“When we published our Parallel Database report in 1995, we
rated WhiteCross as the second best data warehousing vendor for
complex queries, the best supplier for the ability to tune
performance, and the leading product for the administration of
parallelism. It outscored Teradata and Oracle in all three
categories and IBM on two, being equal in the third.

“The problem was that WhiteCross, which was founded in 1987, was
a database engine. That is, it was a database tied to proprietary
hardware…”

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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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