Someone described it very well - Teradata is allergic to innovations. Why are there no more quality innovations? Where has the innovation gone? What is the problem? I understand that innovation is risky and that it’s hard, but c’mon, it’s high time to do something about it. This company urgently needs new ways of thinking and doing.
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I doubt it will entirely cease to exist. It will continue to wither away though and people will continue to fight to stay alive on the island. Any time spent here only makes you more irrelevant in the job market. When your time comes, and it will, do you want to be seen as a dinosaur who is familiar with working on technology that is decades out of date? Think about how we just last fall decided that we are "cloud first" and even then, we only said we were. We continue to prove to customers that we have no clue what we are doing in the cloud and are NOT prepared.
Try this, name a successful tech company that uses our products. The companies that we depend on the most for business are dinosaurs themselves and as they fall, so do we. Many of those companies are looking for an innovator to technologically save them and yet look at us. I'm not asking to argue it here. Ask around your team, your own friends throughout the company and I challenge you to find anyone who believes that we are anywhere near the edge of modern technology. Instead, they will combat that we are "stable" and yes, we are on premises but definitely not in any cloud.
So will Teradata cease to exist in 2022?
Wait, just being cloud first is not solving every issue!?! I always wondered, and always asked “ why aren’t the major tech companies using TD? More so, how are they leading real time analytical insights without it? For 40 years a patent was enough, but tech simply found better tools that are far easier, cheaper, and far less complex, and critically; they worked in a cloud world YEARS ago. TD does not even work in the cloud at scale. So while HA was busy showing off her political viewpoints, and SB was busy hanging out with COEDs at burning man, and OR/VL were busy telling people to duck off in a Tesla...TD became irrelevant in a very short period of time. 16.0 was a disaster. Vantage was renamed parts. Leadership has failed, because they focused on hiding issues and laying talent of off Rather than solve problems. Now, it’s too late. Game over.