Archive for January, 2008
These past few weeks featured a lot of announcements by Talend, by the OSA, and by the open source community in general. The timing of Solutions Linux was very good with that regard, and many members of the press are highly interested in hearing from open source thought leaders.
 On Wednesday alone, Bertrand was interviewed and filmed by three different media outlets: LCI (the French 24-hour information channel) - see photo, VNU.net, and NetEco. All segments are expected to air within one week, we’ll post links to them when they are available online. Topics addressed in these interviews ranged from open source adoption to interoperability, from the launch of the OSA in Europe to the Attali Commission report, and a few others.
Dominic, the OSA president, and myself were also interviewed by several high profile media outlets in the US, the UK, France, etc. on the OSA Europe launch.
Yves
 Today during my keynote at Solutions Linux in Paris this morning, I announced the creation of the European Chapter of the Open Solutions Alliance, the open source consortium Talend co-founded one year ago. For the OSA, this means “acting local”, while still “thinking global”.Indeed, more open source projects have originated in Europe than anywhere else in the world, which gives the region a unique foundation for building business value for users. Even for global vendors like Talend, it is important for open-source companies to work together to maximize the opportunities for open solutions in the European market.
This new chapter structure will better enable the OSA to address the needs of vendors such as Talend, who are deploying business-ready open solutions all over the world, but with a regional focus that is tailored for regional differences in culture, business practices, regulatory environments and open source adoption patterns.
Over the course of the next three months, we will finalize the creation of this chapter. Stay tuned for more information.
Bertrand
Our recently announced partnership with Microsoft has resulted in mostly positive coverage. However in a piece written by Chris Kanaracus of IDG, there has been an interpretation issue about how Talend Open Studio is positionned with regards to MSIS.
Our mission at Talend is clearly the interoperability of all systems, open source or not, and partnering with Microsoft gives us access to a huge market, with the same interoperability needs as all IT organizations.
In the integration field, Microsoft offers MSIS, Microsoft Integration Services. This is a technology that is competing with ours, and I don’t believe that Microsoft has chosen to partner with Talend because they felt in any way that MSIS was lacking capabilities. On the contrary, because Microsoft has such a comprehensive coverage of the IT stack, any partner of Microsoft in one domain is also bound to be a competitor in other domains. At the end of the day, users choose the technology that is the most appropriate for them, in an healthy “coopetition” spirit.
Again, I want to thank the Open Source Lab at Microsoft and especially Sam Ramji for their strong engagement with open source companies such as Talend, and for their commitment to giving more choices to users.
Bertrand
We announced today a technical partnership with Microsoft. The goal of this partnership is very simple - and very transparent: ensure interoperability of Microsoft systems with the rest of the information system. Nobody can ignore the fact that IT systems are made of a combination of open source and closed source technologies, of databases and packaged applications, of legacy and SaaS systems, of… you name it, it’s probably in there!
Interoperability is the core of our business, and it’s a subject that is close to my heart (this is why Talend is a founding member of the OSA, for example). So when Sam Ramji from Microsoft invited us to their Open Source Lab in Redmond, and offered to help us work better with their systems, we decided to use these resources for the greatest benefit of our users. And we also liked the fact that only very few vendors are admitted in the lab: MySQL, Firefox, XenSource and now Talend are among the chosen ones. A clear tribute to Talend’s success.
Specifically, our work with Microsoft was three-pronged: improving our performance on Windows (including Windows 2008), supporting SQL Server 2008, and providing connectors for the Microsoft Dynamics applications.
Of course, this does not lower our commitment to the support of open source technologies: Linux operating systems, open source databases and packaged applications, etc. Open source is also freedom of choice, and interoperability between all systems is the path to this freedom of choice.
Bertrand
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