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		jng on Sept 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Snowflake so Valuable? I saw them a year or two ago positioning themselves in contrast to Redshift and BigQuery. I though "these guys are building something for Microsoft to acquire" (my thought was, something with a more modern OLAP architecture than SQL Server, which they can offer via Azure). Naive me, they were so much more business savvy than that...

sjg007 on Oct 1, 2020 | [–]

The snowflake team came from Microsoft.

kwillets on Oct 1, 2020 | [–]

SQL Server had too much political pull within the org for such a deal to succeed.

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