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Database Bigwigs Lead Stealthy Open Source Startup

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hope-it-isn't-vaporcorp dept.

BobB writes "Michael Stonebraker, who cooked up the Ingres and Postgres database management systems, is back with a stealthy startup called Vertica. And not just him, he has recruited former Oracle bigwigs Ray Lane and Jerry Held to give the company a boost before its software leaves beta testing. The promise — a Linux-based system that handles queries 100 times faster than traditional relational database management systems."

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  1. When Will This Be Ported? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The question is when will this be ported to a mainstream OS such as Windows?

    1. Re:When Will This Be Ported? by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 2, Funny

      The question is when will this be ported to a mainstream OS such as Windows?

      Where by mainstream, you mean useless?

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    2. Re:When Will This Be Ported? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      at 2 fortune 500 companies and 1 fortune 1000 company

      that's 1500 companies with 3 fortunes, and you say he is dumb!!!
  2. Everyone, we are moving to ASP now by varmittang · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was LAMP, now its LAVA. Much cooler name.

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  3. Re:it's fast, but can it penetrate enemy airspace? by varmittang · · Score: 2, Funny

    V

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  4. Re:it's fast, but can it penetrate enemy airspace? by Aqua_boy17 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but what does its radar signature look like?
    Probably, a flock of seagulls.
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  5. Re:Doesn't "stealthy" require some stealth anymore by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Vertica's website has had all the details about what they're doing for months. They've had a Wikipedia article for a long time. This is some new Network World definition of "Stealthy", apparently...

    Network World is a trade rag. To them, anything not advertised is stealthy. Especially since they want to motivate people to think "oh no, I don't want to be stealthy, that means unknown! quick buy some advertising!"

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  6. You're bound to get some strange looks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    during the transition when you tell people your business runs on LAVA-LAMP technology.

  7. Re:it's fast, but can it penetrate enemy airspace? by eclectro · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but what does its radar signature look like?

    It's not bad, but the new startup synergistica that I'm working on is gonna be completely invisible.

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  8. Re:Omg top 5 by bob.appleyard · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're 100 times faster than anyone else, obviously.

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  9. Re:buzzword enabled by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 5, Funny

    "grid-enabled, column-oriented relational database management system"
    What does that mean?

    Uh, a spreadsheet?
  10. Re:it's fast, but can it penetrate enemy airspace? by Gospodin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft is backing them?

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  11. Stealthy? by plasmacutter · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's on the front page of slashdot.. how stealthy can it be?

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