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May 16, 2008
Data integration and tradeshows
Spring is show season. We all know this in marketing. Even though shows seem to become more and more spread year-round.
Nevertheless, after the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara last month (see my blog entry on Talend's corporate blog), we have been doing two shows back to back: JavaOne in San Francisco last week, and TDWI in Chicago this week.
Both were great shows for Talend:
- lots of Java folks at JavaOne (strange, no?) and lots of interest for data integration technologies. Open source is a big thing in the Java community. We had great discussions with many good contacts, and held also some very valuable meetings with press and analysts (expect some coverage soon).
- TDWI in the Windy City was good too. Relatively smaller than other TDWI conferences, but many representatives from high profile companies came by, intrigued by open source and what it had to offer. I also did a videocast with Claudia Imhoff for the B-Eye-Network - can't wait to view it. And of course, met with a lot of old friends, analysts, partners... this is really a terrific ecosystem. And open source is playing a key role in BI now. The evangelization work is starting to pay off.
Posted by Yves de Montcheuil at May 16, 2008 3:15 AM
