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

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"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

"Microsoft project Daytona is geared toward scientists in healthcare, education, environmental sciences, and other fields where researchers need--but don't always have access to--powerful computing resources to analyze and interpret large data sets, such as disease vectors or climate observations. Through the service, users can upload pre-built research algorithms to Microsoft's Azure cloud, which runs a across a highly distributed network of powerful computers."

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/231002161