Greenplum gears up for datawarehouses

I've written about Greenplum (here and here), which hopes to be a disruptive force in the business intelligence and datawarehousing arena with its open source stack. Today the company announced $19 million in funding, a major customer win (Smart Communications, the leading wireless service provider in the Phillipines), and the appointment of Bill Cook, a 19-year Sun veteran with a sales background, as CEO. Companies such as Teradata, Oracle and Netezza are beginning to look over their shoulders, especially with claims by cash-infused Greenplum that it can deliver high-end datawarehousing at higher performance and lower speed than competitors.

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