"in 2006, Mr. Plattner decided to shake things up. He took a bottle of red wine and sheet of paper into the garden behind his house. By the time he had reached the bottom of the bottle, he says, there wasn’t much written on the paper. But, he says, he reached the conclusion that in-memory systems were the future"

— http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203430404577092651330963684-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwNTEyNDUyWj.html

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