There is something to be said about recognition by the market and your peers.
First, the SourceForge community nominates us for an Award in the category “Most Likely to be the Next $1 billion Acquisition” (see Yves’ post - and please vote for Talend Open Studio or you’re in trouble with Yves). Matt Asay thinks we are one of the credible winners: “Only a small fraction of the candidates are actually corporations capable of being purchased for $1 billion (Zenoss, Magento, and Talend welcome your $1 billion.)”
Then Bob Zurek writes:
“Will we see headlines like this in 2009 or sooner? My top guesses.
IBM to acquire Red Hat
Sun to acquire Talend and Jaspersoft
Microsoft to finally acquire Yahoo”
Thanks Bob, it’s good to be viewed as one of the three most important potential capital events of next year.
And sorry, Vincent McBurney, but when you write: “Sun acquires Informatica and open sources it. Oracle acquires Talend and close sources it.” - well, you’ve got it all wrong. Informatica, and IBM with DataStage also BTW, have their customer “by the balls” with their proprietary pricing model. They can’t go open source now. Too late. They would die. And should Oracle (or anyone else, for what matters) acquire Talend, they couldn’t close source it. The license we have chosen does not permit it. Our users are safe.
Unfortunately, the $1B milestone has already been achieved. I guess we’ll have to do better. Assuming this is the route we choose to go!
Bertrand
Thanks Bertrand - I was joking. The share market would lynch any board that acquired Informatica and didn’t hold on to all the license revenue it brings in. I don’t think Informatica is going to get acquired by anyone but it would be interesting to see Talend at Sun - especially with the global demand for data integration tools growing at more than 20% a year - but don’t they already have an open source ETL and data quality tool in ETL Integrator? Oracle, IBM and SAP are also not looking for ETL so the tricky part is finding a company who can afford the price tag.