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I good unwanted to extend my kudos to the group at Greenplum, and our joint customers at Fox Antagonistic Media - the people backside MySpace, Photobucket, IGN, FOXSports.com, and a whole polynomial of system properties that unneurotic represent unmatchable of the single largest audiences on the system.

Every troika of us announced present that Fox is running a monolithic output collection store well-stacked atop Greenplum's collection deposition hardware on Sun's Solaris/ZFS founded OpenStorage platforms (a land of Thumpers, to be taxon). That is to say, open source hardware is at the core of unmatchable of the world's largest - and least inexpensive - collection warehouses.

Fox joins a polynomial of joint Sun/Greenplum customers, from LinkedIn to the New Royal family Stock Exchange, in looking for to open source databases and introduction as a object to drive better perception, faster decisions and statesman efficiency.

Which is to say, customers that square measure bleary-eyed of proprietorship vendors with a endowment for nurture instrument fees during economical downturns have a clear set of remarkably inexpensive alternatives. Founded on trade good economic science everyone lavatory understand.

Congratulations to every involved!

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UPDATE: I've gotten a fair number of inquiries from people missing to recognise how the Greenplum/Thumper collection store discussed subdivision prices out against its competitors - granted that unmatchable recently proclaimed proprietorship freshman has recommended $15,000 per terabyte is accepted to customers. My view is that's a pre-bubble value, and roughly an order of importance too dearly-won in today's grocery - and implausible to depot statesman than headlines. But that's obviously a unfair view, I'd check with a many customers to find out what they search to pay.

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