Microsoft just signed a partnership with Yahoo to have a 10 year cooperation on the search engine services in order to beat Google. Ms is now hiring Yahoo employees to work on the transition. It seems that
"Data warehousing software provider Teradata has reported a 10% decline in net income to $62m for the second quarter 2009, compared to net income of $69m in the year-ago quarter, on revenue down 7% at $421m.
Operating income fell 9% to $84m, while diluted EPS fell 5% to $0.36. The company had cash from operating activities of $103m, and during the quarter repurchased approximately 1.4 million shares for $30m.
Product revenue declined 16% to $185m, while professional and installation-related services revenue grew 1% to $127m, and maintenance services grew 1% to $109m. Geographically, Americas revenue fell 3% to $229m, EMEA revenue fell 8% to $118m, and Asia Pacific and Japan revenue fell 19% to $74m.
For the first half it reported a 4% decline in net income to $107m compared to $111m a year ago, on revenue down 5% at $788m. "
Although Teradata has very excellent product and has been proved by many industries that it is up-to-now the best data warehouse platform on large-scale demands, people are now considering those more interesting offers from IBM, Microsoft, Oracles, etc. I think this financial crisis will also teach CIOs to learn how money can be saved with just considering another tool.
Well, shall we expect a "lite" edition of Teradata at a later time point?
