The company's Oracle Big Data Appliance, which was outlined in October at OpenWorld, is an engineered system much like Exadata, but at a lower price point. How low? The big data appliance will run $450,000 with 12 percent hardware and software maintenance, which works out to be $54,000. Analysts had been expecting the Oracle's big data system to fall in the $750,000 range. In October, Cowen analys
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