Bertrand and I have been hitting the road for the past week or so, with one mission: spread the word among the distinguished members of the press and analyst communities about Talend, our solutions, and the value they bring to users. Our PR agencies in the US and Europe have set the pace, quite intense - we have done 21 briefings so far with many leading IT publications and analyst firms, and more are scheduled over the next few days!
Got to say it - we are thrilled by the feedback we get. All journalists and analysts we met with were extremely positive about our value proposition, our positioning and how we are going to revolutionize the data integration market. Several caught themselves thinking out loud: “it was about time an Open Source player comes and shatters this proprietary market”.
And since getting stuck in bad weather storms has become a Talend trademark, I’ll just mention that - yes, we were in Boston on Monday and Tuesday, when it got hit by a nasty Nor’easter that dumped several inches of rain, flooded houses and highways, disrupted traffic and ball games… but that did not prevent us from running from meeting to meeting, soaking wet that we were!
Yves
More than two weeks have already gone by since the official announcement of our US operations so it is about time I get use to blogging myself to let you know first hand about all the exciting news on this side of the Ocean!
Beyond the necessary administrative duties to launch Talend, Inc., I have been spending time trying to let the world know about the revolution in data integration. Some of our soon-to-be partners out there know me on a first name basis by now and you should expect lots of exciting news coming from us within the next few weeks.
But back to what is happening, Talend will be presenting at the MySQL user conference (http://www.mysqlconf.com) next week. We will also have a booth where you’ll be able to see a demo from… the master himself (Fabrice, our co-founder & COO, data integration expert, Talend’s initial architect and technical visionary)
A few weeks later, whether you missed us at Santa Clara or cannot get enough of Talend, you will be able to meet us at San Francisco’s Moscone conference center for JavaOne where you’ll hear more exciting news.
On the week of May 14th, we will be having our first public training in South Bay thanks to the partnership we signed with ASPE technology (www.aspetech.com) a nationwide leading training solutions provider.
As you see a pretty full agenda to celebrate Talend’s first month in the US - and it is only a start!
Meet the bald* guy (*litterally! I have no hair) on any of these events and let’s talk about how you can benefit from the data integration revolution!!!
Vincent
In the past few years, IONA, an application integration vendor (originally CORBA, now SOA) has been increasing its Open Source focus while also continuing to offer proprietary solutions. They’ve just announced the acquisition of LogicBlaze, an Open Source vendor that complements their SOA offering. This is significant for two reasons. First, because it shows that Open Source is becoming more and more prevalent in the interoperability space. And second, because its shifts the balance of a dual (proprietary and Open Source) vendor more toward Open Source, which is always great news for the community!
Who will be next? And how long before Open Source vendors start to acquire proprietary vendors?
Bertrand
I heard today about the new partner program that our colleagues at Openbravo are launching. As you know Openbravo is the leading open source ERP and we are pretty close to them - actually we were both among the co-founders of the Open Solutions Alliance and I have taken great pleasure to work with Manel and Josep.
I think this new partner program is a pretty exciting opportunity for Openbravo’s partners to help organizations of all sizes get access to a customized ERP solution, one that really meets their needs (instead of trying to make their needs meet the solution). Before that, either you were a Fortune 1000 with a couple millions to spend - or you were stuck with a one-size-fits-all proprietary solution.
Kudos to Openbravo for this great initiative, I really think this is going to make a difference in the ERP world!
Bertrand
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