On: Databricks to Buy Data-Management Startup Tabular

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Disclaimer - I am James on this[1] blog.

Yesterday we announced Polaris specifically so (1) customers don't get locked into a catalog; (2) people know Snowflake works with AWS, Azure, Confluent, etc.

1: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/introducing-polaris-catalog/

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This [1] says Snowflake was also bidding to buy Tabular.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/databricks-is-buying-data-op...

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Awfully many coming soons in that article

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No doubt. Ask my team how thrilled I am whenever we say "coming soon."

Narrator: It made him die inside.