Comments on: Infobright update http://www.dbms2.com/2009/02/12/infobright-update-2/ Choices in data management and analysis Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:59:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Curt Monash http://www.dbms2.com/2009/02/12/infobright-update-2/comment-page-1/#comment-112136 Curt Monash Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:58:25 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=691#comment-112136 John, It's a constant struggle to get vendors to disclose hard numbers in areas such as pricing, revenue, and customer base. What's more, these things are commonly unverifiable at small companies, and of those occasions where I'm pretty sure a small company is telling the truth, a large fraction occur precisely BECAUSE I'm under NDA. Sometimes I find it best just to encourage a vendor to disclose what it chooses to in its own words. But if you have any follow-up questions -- go for it! Infobright execs read here, and may well choose to offer more detail in reply. Thanks for your interest, CAM PS. I try to keep my pricing simple, so a majority of the vendors in this sector pay me exactly the same amount of money as their competitors do. John,

It’s a constant struggle to get vendors to disclose hard numbers in areas such as pricing, revenue, and customer base. What’s more, these things are commonly unverifiable at small companies, and of those occasions where I’m pretty sure a small company is telling the truth, a large fraction occur precisely BECAUSE I’m under NDA.

Sometimes I find it best just to encourage a vendor to disclose what it chooses to in its own words.

But if you have any follow-up questions — go for it! Infobright execs read here, and may well choose to offer more detail in reply.

Thanks for your interest,

CAM

PS. I try to keep my pricing simple, so a majority of the vendors in this sector pay me exactly the same amount of money as their competitors do.

]]> By: John Redwood http://www.dbms2.com/2009/02/12/infobright-update-2/comment-page-1/#comment-112119 John Redwood Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:12:32 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=691#comment-112119 Curt! I expect better from you! Since when do you let vendors write your stories for you? Vague statements like "our best quarter to date" "first year revenue from open source customers is more than the prior business model" both seem to point to a complete lack of revenues prior to the open source model and are basically meaningless. Are they paying you so much you couldn't even ask a few hard questions? John Curt! I expect better from you! Since when do you let vendors write your stories for you? Vague statements like “our best quarter to date” “first year revenue from open source customers is more than the prior business model” both seem to point to a complete lack of revenues prior to the open source model and are basically meaningless.
Are they paying you so much you couldn’t even ask a few hard questions?
John

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