Wednesday, April 20, 2011

HP Gets With the (Developer) Program. CEO pimps PaaS, NoSQL – James Governor's Monkchips

Some bass-ackwards logic in here…  (“Leo” is HP CEO Leo Apotheker)

“But back to Leo: he also made an extremely aggressive anti-Oracle statement, which any modern web developer would absolutely recognise:

‘traditional relational databases are becoming less and less relevant to the future stack.’ 

“The call to NoSQL is a wakeup call because unlike IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, HP doesn’t have a relational database franchise to protect.”

Huh?  Let me get this straight.  A company that does not compete effectively in the relational DBMS market dismisses such products… and that that’s some kind of wake-up call?  And it’s a wake-up call because (?) that company has no stake in that market and every incentive to discourage further spending in that market? 

To be clear, it would be a wake-up call if Oracle said that relational DBMS’s had no future.  When HP says it, its barely distinguishable from marketing claptrap.

HP Gets With the (Developer) Program. CEO pimps PaaS, NoSQL – James Governor's Monkchips

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