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May 9, 2008
New players = signs of a mature market
Just before JavaOne, Sun announced their Mural project: "an open-source community with the purpose of developing an ecosystem of products that solve the problems in Data Management through a collaborative community-driven approach."
Unsurprisingly, Sun's definition of data management includes data integration, and one of the core components of Mural is called Data Integrator, an ETL project.
The Server Side echoed the launch of the project: Sun Microsystems Announces Mural: Open Master Data Management.
It is still too early to judge of the feature set and quality of this project - our flagship product, Talend Open Studio, has been released for over 18 months now and has over 3 years of R&D behind it. But it is clearly a sign that the open source data integration market is maturing and attracts new entrants. I know our technical folks will be monitoring closely the success of this project. And rather than seeing it as a competitor, I much prefer to see it as an ally in our fight against proprietary lock-in and the outrageous license costs our proprietary competitors are charging!
So... welcome to the open source data integration world, Mural!
Posted by Yves de Montcheuil at May 9, 2008 11:15 AM
