I tried searching for the keyword talend in Google. Natural search results were expected, with Talend’s Web site occupying the first positions. More interesting were the sponsored links (Google’s “Adwords” - the ones that are shown on top on the colored background, and on the right-hand side of your screen).
Competitors (Oracle: 1st position, BO: 2nd position…) and partners such as JasperSoft, think they can attract qualified traffic by bidding on the talend keyword. And they probably do! In the case of partners, it’s for the best. In the case of competitors, I am not worried: they’ll come back to download Talend Open Studio after finding that Oracle’s and BO’s web site offer nothing of value: you’ve got to pay to just have a look at their software.
More interesting is the Jitterbit ad (bottom right): they offer a Talend Alternative. Well, that’s pretty cool to be the reference in open source data integration, to which other open source vendors are now measuring. I bet others will soon follow suit, measuring their success against ours. After all, when Xaware did their press launch a couple months back, they kept comparing their solution to ours - even though their solution touts a vastly different concept, but we were at that time the only real open source integration company.
It’s good to have become a reference in our space, in such a short time.
Yves
There is something to be said about recognition by the market and your peers.
First, the SourceForge community nominates us for an Award in the category “Most Likely to be the Next $1 billion Acquisition” (see Yves’ post - and please vote for Talend Open Studio or you’re in trouble with Yves). Matt Asay thinks we are one of the credible winners: “Only a small fraction of the candidates are actually corporations capable of being purchased for $1 billion (Zenoss, Magento, and Talend welcome your $1 billion.)”
Then Bob Zurek writes:
“Will we see headlines like this in 2009 or sooner? My top guesses.
IBM to acquire Red Hat
Sun to acquire Talend and Jaspersoft
Microsoft to finally acquire Yahoo”
Thanks Bob, it’s good to be viewed as one of the three most important potential capital events of next year.
And sorry, Vincent McBurney, but when you write: “Sun acquires Informatica and open sources it. Oracle acquires Talend and close sources it.” - well, you’ve got it all wrong. Informatica, and IBM with DataStage also BTW, have their customer “by the balls” with their proprietary pricing model. They can’t go open source now. Too late. They would die. And should Oracle (or anyone else, for what matters) acquire Talend, they couldn’t close source it. The license we have chosen does not permit it. Our users are safe.
Unfortunately, the $1B milestone has already been achieved. I guess we’ll have to do better. Assuming this is the route we choose to go!
Bertrand
Taking as a pretext the Euro 2008 soccer (or football, as we say in Europe!) championship which saw Spain win the title, Matt Aslett from The 451 Group studied in detail open source adoption in the 16 countries that had qualified.
Matt looked at several criteria (projects, national policies and major suppliers) and looked at each group of the Euro 2008 to detail the strengths and weaknesses of each of these countries, as far as open source is concerned. He explains for example how Croatia has adopted in 2006 a charter aiming to grow the use of open source technologies in its government agencies, whereas Portugal has had such a principle since 2002. Romania seems to be lagging behind, despite strong public interest, and Germany and France have the most diverse projects and public initiatives.
The two countries that qualified for Matt’s open source final are both very active markets for Talend.
It is worth noting that some countries which did not qualify still deserve some attention - for example the UK, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Ireland, Denmark…
This study gives us a detailed vision of the adoption of open source in Europe. What comes out of this is that open source solutions are more widely spread than some people like to acknowledge, thanks in part to the help of governments and the involvement of IT staff, not only in government agencies but also in private companies.
Could open source become the driver of the renaissance of a great software industry in Europe - something that everyone is dreaming of, for example every year when the Truffle 100 Europe is published? It might very well be.
Bertrand
Thanks to a terrific community that nominated Talend Open Studio, I am proud to inform you that Talend has been nominated a finalist in the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards, in the category “Most Likely to be the Next $1 billion Acquisition”.
This is a great recognition of the success of Talend and how we have clearly become the leader in the open source data integration market, and a model for many other players in this field.
Now we need the community more than ever. PLEASE VOTE!!! Being a finalist is a great recognition but we don’t want to stop here, we want to be the winner.
The process is simple:
Visit this URL: http://sourceforge.net/awards/cca/?group_id=181308. You will need to authenticate into your SourceForge.net account (if you are not a member already, you will be prompted to create an account - it’s a very straightforward process and of course it’s free). Then pick Talend Open Studio as your vote for the category “Most Likely to be the Next $1 billion Acquisition”. You may pick other winners for other categories if you wish, but this is optional - you can just pick “I do not wish to vote” (yeah, this is a bit of a pain… but it’s worth it!)
Don’t wait - voting is only open for a few weeks.
Thanks again to all the community for your support.
Yves
PS: kudos to SourceForge.net, a fellow founding member of the OSA, for putting together these great awards!
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