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2009/07/31

One reason everybody talks about the "Netezza (list) price" is that it hasn't been changing much, seemingly staying stable at $50-60K/terabyte for a long time. And thus Teradata's 2550 and Oracle's larger-disk Exadata configuration - both priced more or less in the same range - have clearly been price-competitive with Netezza since their respective introductions. That just changed. Netezza is cutting its pricing to the $20K/terabyte range imminently, with further cuts to come. So where does that leave competitors?...

2009/07/12

I have been giving a lot of thought lately to cloud pricing. As an adviser to companies from both sides of the issue -- cloud (IaaS and PaaS) providers and cloud users (and potential users) -- I've had an interesting perspective on the issue, which I will discuss in this and several future posts....

2009/04/29

I have often said BI pricing is a buyer's nightmare. No two vendors package products the same way, so defining requirements and evaluating alternatives can be a painful process. You would think that procuring the software is relatively easier, but it's often...