I wish I arrived to TD just recently so that I wouldn't know how this used to be a very innovative company before everything went downhill. I'm a little nostalgic these days. They managed to nearly bring down a company that was once very promising.
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Wow, that’s amazing! And everyone else can do it easier and for less money, but a little slower? I’ll take the competition.
We can do multi inner joins faster than the competition - what more do you want for your investment ?
We have spent $300M+ PA for the last few years in R&D, and what do we have to show for it? A vague PowerPoint roadmap and a CPO HA who deflects blame to sales, consulting, marketing, customer service, and alliances for her, DS, and SB shortcomings.
Almost three years in and $1B spent, zero innovation and no vision, but HA does have a great line of political t-shirts and is an adept virtual signaller.
Exactly the reason why there are layoffs.
Even if the tech might be better suited to a specific task, customers still don’t use it.
‘Was and still is a high performing database. I recently tried to recreate a multi inner join query on a competitor product for a customer of mine and performance was terrible. I just wish they had TD as the job would run in half the time’
As a tech company it would help having an actual CTO to drive innovation instead of SB who is just a consultant.
Was and still is a high performing database. I recently tried to recreate a multi inner join query on a competitor product for a customer of mine and performance was terrible. I just wish they had TD as the job would run in half the time
Actually, porting the stock MF client utilities (bteq. flc, arc, etc.) to UNIX was a jo--t venture between TD and an AT&T development unit in Orlando, FL. So yeah, AT&T was "influential" in creating a TD network interface. Much to the chagrin of the IBM groupies. In fact, when the COP effort launched there was shock among the MF crowd that the focus was on IP (and OSI and MAP etc) protocols rather than SNA LU2.
Actually, we had COPs that talked to early PCs (Excel with run-time Windows) in 1989 - before AT&T made NCR buy us. But, yes, AT&T was our largest single customer before Walmart, so I'm sure there was some of that influence on connecting to networked devices.
Go back a little more (before the AT&T acquisition) and you'll see a TD that was anything but innovative. In fact their only ambition was to be IBM mainframe compatible and to sell into mainframe shops. The mere mention of providing a TCP/IP client interface was met with open hostility. Twas AT&T that dragged the mainframe dinosaurs at TD engineering, kicking and screaming, out of the 1960s and into the modern networked world.
Teradata was - and is - innovative because of our people. Are you still innovating? If not, what is stopping you?
Same here! I remember "the good ole days" when the public would wear TD branded clothing (almost cult-like), people would go ape sh-t for the next Partners Event, we employees were excited about the future and looked forward to new product announcements. Still shocked how downhill things have gone. :-(