https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/17/teradata_ceo_interview/
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Why would anyone buy a dinosaur? And if they were stupid enough to want to they would buy the R and D and not the people.
Will Teradata be acquired in the next year?
Exactly, this is why we lost ALL of E-Bay. They exited TD entirely, and I know of at least 3 other major clients who have said they are done in ~2 years and are actively migrating away. Once they lay off the CSRs its gonna be a stampede. May is gonna s—!
Very basic issue that no one likes to discuss... Our cloud doesn't scale. It is literally bound by size. So it is impossible to migrate even lower systems of the large and complex customers. What do we do about them? Oopsies! They're not even backfilling the old csr roles when they leave. I guess that's our way to "nudge" the customers to leave on prem... Just don't support it any longer! But but but... our cloud doesn't scale for these customers, so what do we do? No one likes to talk about that.
Our cloud solutions s—. They don't work...NFR is a damn joke. GSO is short staffed. Any company thinking TD cloud is the right choice needs a new head of IT.
SM really needs to focus on selling the re-intro to the internal employees. Yes, getting the customer on board is important but when the migrations start and are being done by a crew that doesn't believe in the cloud or have any process whatsoever, it becomes disaster after disaster. Every cloud migration so far has been like the first time we've ever seen one. Full of missteps, confusion and delays. Ask the big blue soda company that's discussed on Tuesdays during the pink list review. Talk to the teams away from the customer meetings and you'll hear about how all of this will eventually pass. The truth though is we are in an arena that we don't know what we're doing and yet we tell the customer otherwise.
It's not a s-xy, nor raising heartbeat re-intro.