The Open Solutions Alliance that Talend co-founded earlier this year is really making headways! We announced this week four new members: 3 vendors (Ingres, CorraTech and Open IT Works) as well as our first Customer-level member (Redmayne Bentley, a UK brokerage firm). The Customer-level membership was introduced recently to further increase the dialog between vendors and users of open solutions, and I think this is a very positive enhancement to the OSA principles.

Several board members of the OSA have also recently been interviewed by leading publications or invited to deliver presentations at key industry events, further proving the leadership role the OSA is taking in topîcs related to open source interoperability:
- Barry Klawans, podcast interview by Scott Mace, IT Conversations
- Open Source, Open Integration, and the Open Solutions Alliance - Stacey Schneider, for Enterprise Open Source Magazine
- OSA Interoperability Roadmap Takes Priorities from Customers, Vendors - Dominic Sartorio, interviewed by IT Business Edge

Talend is also actively supporting the involvement of the OSA in major open source conventions (such as OSCON in July and LinuxWorld in August).

Welcome on board, Ingres, CorraTech, Open IT Works and Redmayne Bentley! You are joining a very involved and active community!

Vincent