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Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by sytse »

buremba wrote: post #40

Hey all, as a potential competitor of Looker, I'm not sure how I should feel about this news. :) Here are some of the facts: 1. When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Even though Alooma is a data pipeline tool which makes it similar to Looker's case, the deal was $150M (compared to $2.6B) so I'm not sure the comparison ma…

Does your lookML alternative support the use cases of Meltano Model https://meltano.com/docs/architecture.html#meltano-model ? We would love to replace ours with something open source if it is better. We love DBT.

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by nixgeek »

Achshar wrote: post #24

Me and My team have been working on a Looker alternative for a couple of years. Hope this is the right time to give a pitch. We as a company love to assist our clients with a free consultation in understanding their data better. This will take you to the direct demo: https://demo.katoai.co/login?email=demo@katoai.co&password=k... I can talk a lot about it if anyone is interested.

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Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by outside1234 »

mc32 wrote: post #10
jrowley wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would definitely help Santa Cruz’s rental market

It would definitely revitalize the coast. But at what price? Can you imagine the gridlock on State Highway 17 (and the Pac HWY)? If I sat in the governator’s office, I’d push for a commuter line from the South Bay to St Cruz. That would be so much more beneficial than the HSR to no-where we wasted 70 billion on.

It is too obviously a great strategy to put in rail between San Jose Diridon, Los Gatos, and Santa Cruz, so let's build rail in the middle of nowhere instead.

There is even an abandoned tunnel under the mountain that did this in the early 1900s!

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by epistasis »

mc32 wrote: post #10
jrowley wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would definitely help Santa Cruz’s rental market

It would definitely revitalize the coast. But at what price? Can you imagine the gridlock on State Highway 17 (and the Pac HWY)? If I sat in the governator’s office, I’d push for a commuter line from the South Bay to St Cruz. That would be so much more beneficial than the HSR to no-where we wasted 70 billion on.

There's massive gridlock for Santa Cruz county residents commuting out to the valley for their workdays. The worst is probably between Santa Cruz and Watsonville.

I know Looker to really incentivize keeping their workforce local.

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by outside1234 »

jrowley wrote: post #27
mc32 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would definitely revitalize the coast. But at what price? Can you imagine the gridlock on State Highway 17 (and the Pac HWY)? If I sat in the governator’s office, I’d push for a commuter line from the South Bay to St Cruz. That would be so much more beneficial than the HSR to no-where we wasted 70 billion on.

I can only imagine the ecological and financial challenges of putting rail in over the Santa Cruz mountains but would love to see it

Ecological challenges - is it really ecologically challenging to put a tunnel into a mountain versus thousands of cars driving to Silicon Valley every morning.

Financial Challenges - please. We have so much money in this state and it is just squandered on so many unneeded things (like the high speed rail line in the central valley).

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by mirceal »

buremba wrote: post #40

Hey all, as a potential competitor of Looker, I'm not sure how I should feel about this news. :) Here are some of the facts: 1. When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Even though Alooma is a data pipeline tool which makes it similar to Looker's case, the deal was $150M (compared to $2.6B) so I'm not sure the comparison ma…

you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by shakna »

derefr wrote: post #41
sildur wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I can tell you what is going to happen. It is going to be killed in about 2-3 years.

I really, really doubt it; Google has never killed a product that it created or acquired to serve as a complement to enterprise Ads/Analytics usage. Google kills plenty of its consumer products if they don’t catch on in a big way (Reader, Google+); and it certainly “transitions” developer -targeted product/service startups into plain features (Firebase, WordLens, etc.) But this is neither—it’s BI software, for enterp…

> and it certainly “transitions” developer-targeted product/service startups into plain features (Firebase, WordLens, etc.

They recently killed "Works with Nest" in favour of an Assistant-backed API that doesn't currently implement what Google acknowledges to be the most popular features of "Works with Nest".

Google are more than willing to kill developer-oriented as consumer-oriented.

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by jedberg »

mirceal wrote: post #56
buremba wrote: post #40

Hey all, as a potential competitor of Looker, I'm not sure how I should feel about this news. :) Here are some of the facts: 1. When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Even though Alooma is a data pipeline tool which makes it similar to Looker's case, the deal was $150M (compared to $2.6B) so I'm not sure the comparison ma…

you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.

YouTube?

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by anbop »

mirceal wrote: post #56
buremba wrote: post #40

Hey all, as a potential competitor of Looker, I'm not sure how I should feel about this news. :) Here are some of the facts: 1. When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Even though Alooma is a data pipeline tool which makes it similar to Looker's case, the deal was $150M (compared to $2.6B) so I'm not sure the comparison ma…

you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.

YouTube, Android, Applied Semantics, DoubleClick, 510 Systems... you haven’t been looking very hard.
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