The Mid Week News 10/04/2019 edit 
Where does time go? It’s time for the news again…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Arrow 0.13 is out
- Greenplum 5.18 is out
- Cloudera Altus Director 6.2 is out
Other technology news:
- Google have decided to partner with a bunch of Open Source ISVs such as Elastic on Confluent rather than create their own offerings based on the open source products - Datanami; The Register; Elastic; Confluent
- Databricks Delta has gone GA - blog; Datanami
- From Datanami - Apache Spark is Great, But Not Perfect - link
- From ZDNet - where is Confluent Going? - link
- Microsoft are crowing about their performance, price and security for their Azure analytics services again - link
- The Register has an update on Teradata’s move to the cloud - link