Tableau plus HyPer: "Something up their sleeve"

Yet a third reaction has come to Tableau's announcement that it has acquired HyPer, the German "high performance database system."

"It seems sort of muddled," wrote Dave Wells in email to me yesterday. He's a longtime Tableau observer, a 40-year IT veteran, and now a consultant and educator at Infocentric. For six years, he was the TDWI education directo…