A couple weeks ago we broke the 100,000 downloads barrier. I would have blogged about this before, had I not been too busy with a new version, a couple press releases, an important tradeshow coming up (make sure to visit us at LinuxWorld in San Francisco - booth #1308-A, part of the OSA pavilion)… no excuse, I know.

Anyway - Talend Open Studio 1.0 was released 9 months ago - in October 2006. Since then, we’ve released 3 other versions: 1.1, 2.0, and 2.1. We have also released the first Software as a Service data integration offering - Talend On Demand.

Of course, none of this would have been possible without the support and feedback from the community, and we are all proud of the tremendous response and adoption curve we have seen in the user community. 100,000 downloads in 9 months - if you count business days only, that’s over a download per minute! Every minute, a new user is downloading Talend Open Studio and is opening the door of Open Source data integration (just to clarify: the 100,000 count is new downloads only, version upgrades are counted separately).

Open Source is spreading like wildfire in all domains of Information Technology. Data integration is no exception. Talend’s mission - democratize data integration, allow companies of all sizes to use a professional data integration solution, for all their integration needs - is definitely on the right track.

I’ll close this post with another number: 3,000. That’s the number of customers that the market leader in proprietary data integration says it has. Food for thought…

Oh, and if you haven’t downloaded Talend Open Studio yet - do it now!

Yves