RE: MS interview

What is OLAP and why is it so good? (According to MS)

Chris

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> The Register has an interesting interview with the vp of Microsoft's SQL
> Server team:
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/21003.html
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> Near the end he gets specifically asked about "Red Hat Database" as a
> competitive threat, and he responds that he doesn't think anyone can match
> their "investment" of "800 professionals" to work on SQL Server.
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> Now I'm sure he didn't mean it to sound this way, but what I conclude from
> that is that you fellows are all an order of magnitude or two more
> productive than anyone at Microsoft :-).
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> Tim
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