For months now the industry has been talking about an HP data warehouse appliance. Appliance vendors even tell me they have been in competitive bids against it. Despite this HP has not announced the product. Rumor has it HP was close to an announcement, but it was pulled at the last moment.

Nevertheless, there is quite a lot of information about it on the HP web site. Just do a Google search on "HP Neoview" and you will find it. One thought is that instead of being aimed at the appliance vendors, NeoView is being targeted at Teradata instead. But then of course some people think of Teradata as an appliance. It depends on how you define the term appliance. Richard Hackathorn and I hope to help here with our upcoming BI Network research report on data warehouse appliances. Watch this space!