I am delighted to announce that Madeleine Biskintaoui, Talend’s North American Channels & Alliances Manager, has been selected as one of CRN Magazine as one of the “The Most Powerful Women Of The Channel”.
This award recognizes leading women executives at solution provider, distribution and vendor companies. Madeleine was singled out by the editors of CRN based on her achievements and the amount of influence she wields in the technology channel. CRN Magazine is running a special feature on these Top 100 Women in the Channel in the August issue - check it out.
Congratulations, Madeleine!
Bertrand
Earlier this week, along with our partners RightScale, Jaspersoft and Vertica, we announced the availability of a complete turnkey BI solution on the Cloud.
The value of this solution is obvious: get an instant deployment of an infinitely scalable, enterprise grade BI stack, at a very affordable cost and without long term commitment. Assembled with the best products in their respective fields, by long-time partners used to work together, the Cloud BI solution makes enterprise BI available to anyone.
Sounds exactly the opposite of what you’re used to getting from traditional players? Well, there is a reason for this: it is exactly the opposite.
We leveraged the CloudWorld expo in San Francisco this week to announce the solution, and we also made a lot of media outreach (see what happens when you unleash four great PR firms on an announcement…). Among the appeared coverage, I like:
All these articles do a great job at covering the news and analyzing the benefits. But I have to say that as far as titles are concerned I like what our two British friends did. A bit or romantism, a Beattles analogy - pretty nice.
There was also a bit of controversy from Dana Blankenhorn with If you have a proprietary partner is it still open source? Dana, of course, agrees that “This partnership delivers a BI solution that lowers costs and offers more flexibility.“ Isn’t that what matters? And for the record, it’s not because you partner with proprietary vendors that your loose your soul. Otherwise we’d all be dementors.
Check it out: www.talend.com/cloud. We offer a free 30-day trial.
Welcome to the Cloud!
Yves
Maybe you remember an incident that happened 2 years ago during the Golden League in Rome - a French long jumper, Salim Sdiri, was hit by a javelin thrown by Finnish athlete, Tero Pitkämäki. The javelin thrower, one of the best in the world, was competing for first place when he slipped and missed his throw which struck the long jumper standing 80 meters (262′) away. Traumatized, Pitkämäki lost the competition and Sdiri was taken to the hospital.This scenario came vividly to mind while I was reading a recent post from Matt Asay, entitled “Building a business selling open source software,” where he explains how Rob Walling, blogger and web development expert, in the process of giving tips on How to compete against open source competition, actually does a fair job of describing how to build an exceptional open-source business.
In fact the arguments advanced by Walling are quite old and outdated, as in the well-known comment “Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing.” Matt’s post analyzes how he fails to convince us, particularly in the field of commercial open source software.
Aiming at one target, Walling managed to hit his own colleagues in the back. He’s not the first or the last but, as Matt Asay proves, open source opponents need to train harder and focus better.
For the record, Salim Sdiri went back to competition one year later, and beat the French record of long jump in 2009 (8m42, or approx. 26′). But Tero Pitkämäki never regained his former level, despite a bronze medal in Beijing in 2008.
I think that says it all.
Bertrand
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