Every company faces a business life cycle: launch, growth, shake-out, maturity and decline.
The problem is that Teradata doesn't know how to get you out of the decline stage.
In fact, the biggest problem is that the company has done nothing to avoid the decline phase for as long as possible.
Is it too late now for Teradata to go back to the expansion cycle? I’m afraid everything they do isn’t enough to make it happen. This company got stuck in 2001 and I no longer have any high hopes.
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Three funniest thing i have seen is management who is SO clueless that they say "but we're parallel!" As if no one else IS! The absurdity is that they are so clueless that they think we are unique. NEWS FLASH! OTHERS ARE TOO AND THEY'RE ALREADY WORKING IN THE CLOUDS. we don't
Agree teradata is a PE play. Just like what happened to cloudera.
Most of he IP and patents are decades old and not cloud-relevant. The database is differentiated for enterprise data warehousing but not for analytics. And it’s not cloud-native. TDC is a Private Equity play. At least then the entire BOD and ELT will be cleared out.
Why would any company want Teradactyl? Better to let it swirl the drain and pick off its customers.
Who would acquire them and why?
Dissolved into obscurity. look at what happened to Sun Microsystems
So based on your assessment will Teradata be acquired soon or in early 2022?