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September 6, 2007
Briefings... and coverage
This week Talend announced a strategic partnership with SugarCRM, the leading open source CRM vendor. I had the pleasure of talking again with some old friends and acquaintances, when our PR firm set up briefings with members of the media and analyst communities. Of course Shawn Rogers of the B-Eye-Network was interested in the news. So was Madan Sheina of Computer Business Review, and Elliot Kind of DBTA 5 Minutes Briefing (this last call was today, so I'll give him a few days to write about the news!). James Governor or RedMonk also picked up the news.
I did all these briefings with Paul Oh of Sugar, who was great about playing our the whole partnership story, and how we would all benefit from this alliance (Sugar, Talend, and the users). Thanks Paul!
This week, I also heard from a former colleague, from 2 sources at the same time! Bob Zurek was at Powersoft when SDP, the maker of PowerDesigner, was bought by Sybase (which had just bought Powersoft). Since I was running marketing for SDP at that time, I got to meet Bob... and our pathes have kept crossing since then. Bob is now CTO of EnterpriseDB. Andy Lampitt who was also at SDP sent me this blog post where Bob names Talend #5 of 10 Fantastic Free Open Source Downloads For The Enterprise. And at the same time my PR sent it to me! Great blog monitoring, guys! Who needs Google alerts...
Posted by Yves de Montcheuil at September 6, 2007 2:45 PM
