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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!
Posted by Yves de Montcheuil at August 30, 2007 4:00 AM
