Yesterday’s InfoWorld home page boasted a great piece: Open source lessons from the French.  Bertrand was interviewed by the editor Tom Kaneshige on the topic - after all Talend is probably one of the best examples of a successful French software vendor this decade.

Bertrand is quoted in the article:

“All students in France use open source,” says Bertrand Diard, CEO and co-founder of Talend, a French pioneer of open source data integration software. “A lot of universities in the U.S., except probably MIT, use traditional tools like Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.” As a result, open source talent is more prevalent in France, Diard says; development is faster, and software quality is higher because French developers aren’t distracted by proprietary and competing technology. “The culture of open source is more advanced here.”

Yves