Comments on: Why Oracle bought big data veteran Endeca

By: jon

jon — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:09:40 +0000

My understanding of Latitude is that it is currently linked to a propriatry db, and has struggled to scale; lets hope Oracle get it onto an Oracle/ Exadata platform soon

By: sstava

sstava — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:59:49 +0000

Why Oracle bought big data veteran Endeca | Cloud Computing News http://t.co/0W7QfKf1

By: Gerard Braat

Gerard Braat — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:22:31 +0000

Detail but it is Paul Sonderegger, not Sondregger.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:16:04 +0000

Does HP’s Autonomy buy (Endeca’s primary competitor) has anything to do with this?? Just a Conspiracy Theory..

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:15:30 +0000

Big Data is not just about volume, it’s also about diversity. But I agree it’s sort of a hype atm.

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:29:45 +0000

I would posit that big data (perhaps somewhat a misnomer) is largely focused on unstructured data, and also on finding new ways of working with it and deriving insights. Endeca enables those things, even if it’s not crunching numbers or running traditional analytic-like workloads.

By: NMSS

NMSS — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:26:21 +0000

Endeca categorized unstructured text. Great but not unique by a LONG shot. And nothing they did was “big data”. Please explain: what is”big data” and why is Endeca about big data?? Is everything big data now because it is the buzz word of the day?

By: Steve Ardire

Steve Ardire — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:37:44 +0000

Since Oracle finally announced a cloud computing offering that uses Hadoop and NoSQL database they needed a right app to compete or otherwise would look empty and silly. And Endeca was there as ‘best candidate’ to fill this gaping void. That’s simply it !

By: Ric

Ric — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:35:12 +0000

You have to wonder who will see the exorbitant infringement lawsuits from this acquisition! I mean hell its not like Oracle acquires to innovate or anything!