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Documentum and Greenplum

@Mikemasseydavis tweeted “will we see #documentum and #greenplum become a ‘platform'”. This aphorism obviously had some attraction since myself and 2 others retweeted it. In a way this is not a completely new idea as Generalli Hellas backed the notion of ‘xCP as the action engine for Big Data‘ which was one of the big ideas that came out of Momentum 2011. In fact EMC seem to have big ideas in this area as evidenced here.

I would ask the following questions:

• How much effort are EMC going to put into this area? How fast will they be able to deliver?
• Does a Greenplum connector for xCP and a feed into Greenplum constitute a platform? What else is needed to make it a platform?
• What are the use cases? Gautam Desai mentions a document with 20 use cases.