Teradata’s troubles cause the restructuring knives to slip out

Teradata revenues dropped again in its third quarter and the company has decided to get serious abut the situation and walk away from the marketing applications business. Revenues of $606m for the data and analytics company were nine per cent lower than a year ago and three per cent less than the previous quarter. There was a …

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Terratroubles

You couldn't make this up: "Our Marketing Applications team has made great progress this year, and has market leading solutions … We are therefore selling our Marketing Applications business.”

There is only one 'r' in Teradata, not two as in the revenue/profit graphic. Still, better than Terrordata.

Teradata in the cloud or as software only may happen early 2016, but that won't be the multi-node MPP version. The single node version, whilst parallel, offers little to distinguish it from any other DBMS. Premium pricing for non-MPP versions won't be easy.

If Teradata hadn't given Yahoo such as big quote for a system 'back in the day' maybe they wouldn't have led the charge to develop Hadoop, which has since eaten Teradata's lunch. The irony...