AliaksandrH

would be curious to see what was the main reason behind this partnership

it's clear that influencers make a lot of money on IG but IG doesn't get a cut

Some companies are closed source for a really good reason: it allows for Vertical Integration and Focused Execution. Bay Area companies spend millions of dollars worth of engineers salaries in projects that layer complexity upon complexity (and you need dozens of engineers to maintain them), just because they are in love with idea of open source. This is dangerous proposition, and it stifles innovation. There is an opportunity to dramatically simplify a lot of data pipelines. Check this out: http://docs.memsql.com/docs/pipelines-overview

Not only your sales force, technology is also a big differentiator: all of the mentioned technologies are very different from one another. My bet is on MemSQL

I feel like there are fundamental problems with MSFT (or INTC)succeeding in the mobile world

After the platform wars of 90s, the industry has scars (70% of economics went to two vendors - MSFT and INTC - Wintel)and would not want any potential repeat of the history

In many ways, ARM Holdings is anti-Intel. Same way, one can claim that Android is anti-Windows model (in many respects)

I am really curious what will happen here - and who are people in U.S. who still don't own a smartphone? (still 39% of the population - http://mashable.com/2013/06/06/smartphones-61-percent/)