This week at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, we introduced Talend Integration Suite to the market. Talend Integration Suite is a subscription service that extends Talend Open Studio with technical support and additional features to support enteprise development and deployment.

The feedback we are getting both from the users community and the press/analyst community is excellent (see for example this LinuxWorld article: Open source lands in the enterprise with both feet). For the former, it does not come as a surprise since all of these features were asked for, and expected, by users. For the latter - no surprise either. Indeed, over the past couple years, the open source landscape has evolved tremendously. A number of software vendors have emerged, that have built a business around supporting and enhancing open source solutions. Some started with already existing projects, others, like Talend, develop a product, donate it to the community, and continue to support, maintain and enhance it. In order to work better with one another, about 20 of these vendors participate into the Open Solutions Alliance - always with the goal of providing better solutions to the market, and solutions that work well with one another.

Just to clarify - Talend Open Studio, the widely adopted open source data integration technology, downloaded over 100,000 times (download it now!), remains under the GPL v2 license - we are not changing that. Talend Integration Suite is simply an extension to Talend Open Studio, with additional enterprise features, detailed in this post from Fabrice. It also includes technical support out of the box, and is provided as an annual subscription.

So don’t hesitate, check out the new features of Talend Integration Suite!

Yves