The market war on the next-gen database mgmt system (DBMS) has begun - ORCL vs TDC vs IBM vs MSFT vs SAP vs HP

"Teradata has faced increasing competitive pressures from high- and low-end products during the last three years. At the high end, Teradata is facing increasing competition from Oracle's Exadata and SAP's HANA systems, which are shaping up to become viable alternatives to Teradata's Active Enterprise Data Warehouse system."

http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=387611