Jitendra saxena's tiny computer company, netezza, will do all of $40 million in sales this year, but Saxena has a message for data warehousing giants like IBM, Oracle and Teradata: Be afraid. "When it comes to performance, none of them can touch us. They can't even come close," Saxena says. Founded in 2000 in Framingham, Mass., Netezza (pronounced "net-EE-za," Urdu for "results") sells a refrigerator-size machine specially designed for analyzing massive amounts of data. A Netezza computer is useless for general purposes, yet for data warehousing it's supremely fast, zipping through terabytes in seconds.
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