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He is selling something (he claims to be) better - Vertica.

I've no comment either way on whether it is, and I know who Stonebraker is and respect what he's done, but he has a vested interest here. Just like Netscape programmers needed to kill off their earlier work, Mosaic.

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I agree. And he's been selling post-relational stuff for a while-- this is not a new observation on his part.

I'm not going to form an opinion on his word alone, but he's got big enough chops in my book to warrant taking what he says seriously, even if he has a vested interest.

he's also selling VoltDB (OLTP memory resident DBMS) and SciDB (Scientific Data).

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