Today Sean Michael Kerner published an interesting piece on InternetNews.com: Open Source ETL Takes On Proprietary Intelligence. Sean comments that the real target of open source vendors like Talend is to take share from the proprietary incumbents - not fight with other open source vendors (which may or may not be in the exact same space). Also quoted is Philip Howard from Bloor Research, who says (in substance) that Talend is a general-purpose (data integration) product which has a broader market opportunity. Also mentioned in this piece is our partner (and OSA co-founding member) JasperSoft, who incorporates Talend’s solution (rebranded as JasperETL, Powered by Talend) in their Jasper BI Suite.

Speaking of Philip Howard, I also enjoyed reading his article Open Source ETL in IT-Director - in which he says that “Talend may have entered the open source ETL market late but it looks to me like it will soon be the clear market leader in this space if it isn’t already.” I kinda agree with his vision…

A third article, published last week by Red Herring’s Eydie Cubarrubia, in which she comments on our Talend On Demand Software-as-a-Service offering, “an indication that it is possible to combine open-source software with an on-demand delivery model.”

Stay tuned for more…

Yves