We just announced the launch of operations in Nuremberg, Germany. Opening a new office is always thrilling for a young company like Talend. It shows our commitment to growing business in a new territory - and our expectations that this territory will yield lots of users of our solutions! The Nuremberg office will support the operations of Talend in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland).

Why Germany? Not only is Germany the largest economy in Europe, it is also one of the most active countries as far as Open Source is concerned. Just looking at our number of downloads and registered users, Germany is pretty high on the list. This data point has been corroborated by several people we know in the industry, including our friends at SourceForge (another OSA founding member).

We have also, over the past year, developed an important community of users in Germany. Opening operations to support them seems only fair.

Germany was also the home of a big Open Source player: SUSE Linux, a major Linux distribution, now owned by Novell. Actually, SUSE was born in Nuremberg, which features an important Open Source community with an Open Source Campus.

I am also happy to welcome Martin Lange as Business Development Manager for Germany. Martin. Martin brings over 13 years of expertise in software development, Business Intelligence and business development.

Welcome on board, Martin!

Bertrand