There They Go Again – that’s what came to mind as I heard of the HP Oracle database machine about which Oracle’s database organization has been touting our demise for years; however, businesses have been choosing Teradata instead of Oracle for business intelligence and analytics, and we now have hundreds of happy customers who prefer Teradata over their OLTP database of choice.

Two years ago and again last year, HP bragged about its “Teradata killer” when it introduced Neoview and even put out press releases wrongly implying that they were replacing us with a few customers. That wasn’t happening and still isn’t.

Now these two behemoths have to join together to try to do what they’ve failed to accomplish on their own. Because we respect our competitors, we’ll look at the Oracle-HP machine very thoroughly and will have more to say soon.

For now, I have to say, there they go again. They were wrong before and we’ll prove them wrong again.