Biz data wrangler's lost its head and gained another. Let's have a look at the Tera...data

After its first 2016 quarter loss and CEO change how did business data analysis haus Teradata do in its second 2016 quarter? Revenues of $599m were down down 3.9 per cent on the year-ago quarter’s $623m but 9.9 per cent higher than the first 2016 quarter, good news there. There was a profit of $64m, better than last quarter’s …

[BigDataGeek]

Meh...

...the company that had a competitive differentiator a *long* time ago is living on borrowed time.

- parallel processing is now availble to all and sundry

- public cloud as a route to market is hardly new

- how will playing nice in the fast-paced, crowded Hadoop market lead to riches?

- more consultancy won't save the lack of innovative tech

Apart from the eponymous DBMS which came to market in the 1980's, when did Teradata *really* last innovate?

Last one out, turn off the lights...