Google to Acquire Looker

brd529 wrote: post #4

Most looker instances I’ve seen are wired to redshift. How long until support for non google cloud databases is dropped, deprioritized, etc?

Maybe this behavior will change under the scrutiny of anti-trust investigations.

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by jon-wood » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 1:22 PM UTC

I'm curious to see how Google handle acquiring a company which requires some fairly high touch sales. Looker is a fantastic tool, but its not something which is useful from day one, and at least currently has a high enough price tag attached to it that they involve a lot of sales engineering in getting new customers to a point where they're able to query data they care about.

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by brd529 » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 1:24 PM UTC

brd529 wrote: post #4

Most looker instances I’ve seen are wired to redshift. How long until support for non google cloud databases is dropped, deprioritized, etc?

The looker blog post addresses this though the google one doesn’t:

> For customers and partners, it’s important to know that today’s announcement solidifies ours as well as Google Cloud’s commitment to multi-cloud. Looker customers can expect continuing support of all cloud databases like Amazon Redshift, Azure SQL, Snowflake, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata and more.

Time will tell - but I suspect we’ll see new features will be “bigquery first”

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by tyingq » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 1:25 PM UTC

jon-wood wrote: post #7

I'm curious to see how Google handle acquiring a company which requires some fairly high touch sales. Looker is a fantastic tool, but its not something which is useful from day one, and at least currently has a high enough price tag attached to it that they involve a lot of sales engineering in getting new customers to a point where they're able to query data they care about.

They have done that sort of acquisition before...Apigee is one example. Before that, ITA software.

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by mc32 » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 1:25 PM UTC

jrowley wrote: post #5

outside1234 wrote: post #3

Hopefully Google starts a campus in the Santa Cruz area off the back of this...

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.