We don't even talk about results internally. Few customers, little to no revenue, confusion with existing legacy database, weak competitive positioning, and turnover of technical staff. HA should be fired. JW too for ringing the bell and calling attention to this flop.
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SB is proof that someone can be educated way beyond their intelligence.
I blame the board and the CEOs for letting a part-time "CTO" who just wanted to travel stay in the position after missing both the appliance wave and the cloud revolution. He was stuck in his "MPP single version of the truth" mindset and became a dinosaur. He is really smart though and keeps getting pay checks. How long will that continue. It is now embarrassing to hear him speak.
VantageLake was rushed to market before it was ready. TD had alpha customers talking publicly about NOS a year before the feature was released. Why didn't the same thing happen with VantageLake? The difference is HA wasn't involved with NOS until the end when she moved all the NOS engineers to VantageLake. All HA had to do was step out of the way and let the VantageLake team do their thing and it would have been a success. HA is an anti-PM. Literally the kiss of death for any project she gets involved with.
And you can put the cloud miss squarely at the feet of the “CTO.”
You have and had many executives from leading vendors in databases, exIBM (SM, JW), exOracle, exMicrosoft, … your problem is you missed the cloud revolution by 20 years. That’s what Intel Corp did by missing the mobile revolution. You can’t recover from it. These mega shifts provide years of ARR to the early players/scalers.
Weak Board + Inept Management + bloated organization + DEI + politics + clueless managers + layoffs (often critical talent) = disastrous current position
This "product" was just a desperate attempt to say we have something that is cloud-native. The fact that it took us 13 years to get a MVP that separated compute from storage tells you how far behind we are the real cloud companies. And our current product still does not have this required cloud-native architecture. How do we have the same CTO during this period? And how did we put HA into her position when we needed a tech executive that has actually managed cloud product development, especially databases?