It may have been the result of a misunderstanding or a comment heard out of context. But whatever the background for the commentary, let me simply state that Netezza is completely committed to the success of the Netezza Migrator and all the other Netezza products and functionality launched at Enzee Universe 2010 this past week. Migrator eliminates a potential barrier to TwinFin™ adoption (i.e., migration costs) and logically should lead to easier acceptance and broader system sales for Netezza. Furthermore, our partnership with EnterpriseDB at both the corporate and technical levels has been and remains extremely solid and strong.
As I stated in the announcement of the product, “The Netezza Migrator product allows organizations to make data warehouse migration decisions independent of proprietary software lock-in. Organizations using data integration and BI applications with embedded Oracle-proprietary database constructs, interfaces and utilities can now more easily manage their migration from Oracle to a TwinFin appliance. The Netezza Migrator will allow our customers to achieve the performance, scale and cost advantages of their TwinFin systems while maintaining their prior investment in proprietary software.” The Netezza Migrator is specifically designed to reduce the time, complexity and costs required of our customers to move their IT applications to the Netezza TwinFin platform.
With Migrator, Netezza’s customers will be able to extract themselves from the dreaded “Oracle lock-in” of functions and procedures written using Oracle-proprietary techniques and they can decide which of their applications to migrate directly to Netezza and just when, at their own pace. Its capabilities go well beyond the extremely limited capabilities provided by Oracle’s own ‘Database Gateway for ODBC’. Migrator provides an Oracle compatible wrapper around Netezza that is optimized in ways that Oracle could never hope, nor deign, to provide with its "Heterogeneous Services" functionality: including support for Netezza syntax pushdown, high speed API, and Netezza user defined functions.
Migrator makes it even easier for Netezza’s customers to move all of their data warehouse from Oracle to Netezza. In short, this is something we feel is extremely valuable for Netezza and particularly “liberating” for our customers.
Migrator could be a nice tool when it works as announcement stated. You did not say much about the Data migration though. I have read the referenced post in dbms2 blog about Migrator where it had raised valid questions.
Does Migrator eliminate that barrier finally or people will continue having a hard time dealing with it? Regards, Steven