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August 30, 2007
Interesting reading
A disjointed post... but I ran into some interesting stuff that I wanted to share.
Alex Fletcher wrote an interesting post on Actuate's open source model. Actuate is kind of a hybrid vendor. On one hand, they are a proprietary vendor with their BI products. In parallel, they have BIRT, an Eclipse-based open source BI environment. But the two product lines are completely unrelated, and as far as I know there is no migration path from one to the other. I am not questionning the goodwill contribution of Actuate to the open source community. Just failing to understand the logic of their business model.
Talking of business model, I recommend this post written by Talend's CEO Bertrand Diard. Talend places customer satisfaction at the core of its business model. That's a very positive thing open source is bringing to the software world as a whole: customer first.
And on (one of the many) differences between the proprietary approach and the open source approach, I highly recommend this article written by Dominic Sartorio, President of the OSA. Dominic explains the difference between open source interoperability and proprietary stack like Oracle's Fusion Middleware. Not that Fusion is an homogeneous stack, since it's mostly made of the dozens of companies they've acquired over the past 2 years!
The last post I wanted to mention is this one from Claudia Imhoff I saw this morning about Sun wanting to change their stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA. Did you know what SUNW stands for? I didn't. Stanford University Network Workstation. I learned something today. Thanks Claudia!
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August 23, 2007
A busy awards week!
This week Talend was recognized by two major IT publications:
- Computerworld's Horizon Award (Honorable Mention)
- Network World's "open source companies to watch"
Both of these awards are great recognition for Talend and the open source data integration in general (for more details, I blogged about them on Talend's corporate blog in this post and this post). They also recognize hard work from all teams at Talend: R&D who built the product of course, sales and biz dev who get users and partners to use it, our founders who had the vision to create a company on open source data integration... and maybe also marketing who is helping communicate all this to the world ;-)
Anyway, a pretty good week!
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Open source is growing beyond the infrastructure
Talend's CEO Bertrand Diard posted a very interesting piece on our corporate blog this morning: Open Source: Beyond Infrastructure.
Beyond the IDC growth numbers, Bertrand makes a very good point that open source is growing outside of its traditional space (infrastructure) and more and more into business applications and middleware. Large organizations are now evaluating open source technologies and proprietary technologies together, looking at technical characteristics, TCO, viability, etc. of both types of software.
Not only is open source here to stay in general, but it is here to stay in the data integration space as well.
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August 21, 2007
Global communities
Yesterday Shawn Rogers announced in this post the entry of the Business Intelligence Network in to the French language market through a partnership with the Nieuwbourg communities, owned and operated by Philippe Nieuwbourg.
I am happy of this announcement - not only because we are talking here of two well respected and recognized communities, but also because I kind of contributed to this partnership by introducing Shawn and Philippe, 6 months ago, after discussing with Shawn of his plans for European growth at the Gartner BI Summit in London, in January of this year.
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August 20, 2007
Talend Open Studio featured in keynote at Gnomedex
Coming back from vacation today, so this isn't fresh news... Just before I left, I got an email from my old friend Shawn Rogers at the Business Intelligence Network (see his blog). Shawn attended Gnomedex in Seattle, with 300 of the biggest names in blogging all in attendance. Shawn told me that a keynote speaker (Robert Steele from OSS.net) put Talend Open Studio on the screen as an example of the power of new information - ETL is the key to open information power.
Pretty neat. And a clear tribute to the power of open source. Thanks, Robert, for recognizing Talend as a player in information power. And thanks, Shawn, for letting me know!
Yves
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August 9, 2007
Open source partnerships and baseball
Last night Andrew, the biz dev manager at JasperSoft - a strategic Talend partner - took us (Bertrand, Talend's CEO, Vincent, Talend's GM for the US, and myself) to AT&T Park for a Giants vs. Nationals game. That was pretty cool! It was the day after Barry Bonds broke the Home Runs record, still he hit another one (took him to 757)! Nice evening, good garlic fries, and we even managed to talk business a bit.
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Greetings from LinuxWorld
This week Talend exhibits at LinuxWorld. We have a 10x20 booth on the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) pavilion, with a pretty good location. Every hour, representatives from OSA member companies take turn demonstrating the Common Customer View project to a sizable audience. This CCV project was created using Talend Open Studio to integrate data from OpenBravo, CentricCRM and Adaptive Planning. Pretty good example of how open source systems can interoperate in the enterprise.
Traffic on our booth is good. Attendees are very interested by the concept of open source data integration, and how Talend democratizes it. Also contributing to booth traffic is the Robosapien RS Media that we are raffling...
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