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I am very proud of Talend’s position as a key open source company. As Talend, we see open source playing a major role in the success of our customers and also in how it’s changing the nature of the Enterprise. Of course, there would not be open source without open source community. The community is where the collective wisdom and shared interests help drive innovations and creativity.
Just this week, Talend has joined the Java Community Process (JCP), to actively get involved in the next version of the JAX-RS specification which defines all about REST and the APIs that developers use to build Java-based RESTful applications. We are excited about this. For one, it helps maintain Talend ESB on the latest REST APIs that are being adopted across the various implementations. Secondly, Talend is a major contributor and user of Apache CXF and we felt that the REST support needs to be maintained to the latest specification and innovations. We have significant ongoing investments within Apache CXF, with a significant part our products embedding this technology for Web Services support, so it makes perfect sense for us to continue to invest in making sure CXF is on the cutting edge of new innovations. Not only will we continue to innovate, but we feel the collective efforts of the JCP members with help improve quality and compatibility across all implementations.
Sergey Berozkin will be Talend’s representative at the JCP. Sergey is a major contributor to the JAX-RS implementation within Apache CXF. He’s crazy about all things REST and will help the JCP defining the latest specification.
When we founded Talend, one of the things that we agreed, from the get-go, was that Talend would not only use open source but also invest in community-based development in the wider open source ecosystem. We have been involved with OW2 since its foundation and Cédric, Talend’s CTO, is a board member of OW2. We are also major contributors to Apache including CXF, Camel, ServiceMix, Karaf, Santuario, ActiveMQ – with a number of Talend team members chairing these projects. We also continue to play an active role in the Eclipse Foundation. Talend’s participation into JCP is the latest of these contributions, but of course not the last one!
Fabrice
The other day, I was riding the Heathrow Express train from London Heathrow to Paddington. It’s a great train service, fast, reliable, and convenient. The windows of the carriages carry a sticker that advertises free Wifi service from T-Mobile. Unfortunately, as anyone who rides that train on a regular basis will tell you, this free service is a legend. When you can get a signal, you can’t get to the login page; and if you get through the login page, the signal will drop after a few minutes. Bottom line: Wifi on the Heathrow Express may be free, but it does not work and it’s useless.
A lot of free software is like this. Good marketing will get you to download it; you will have to bear with numerous ads to get through download, installation, and activation. Only to realize that either it does not work at all, or that to do the stuff you need it for, you have to buy the “advanced” version (and you’re so lucky, there is a special discount this week!).
Why is open source different? Well, firstly, open source is not free as in free beer (or free Wifi…), it’s free as in free speech. A lot has been written on the topic, so I’ll just say this: the most important value of open source is open-ness, not cost-less-ness. Everything stems from there.
- Open source works: precisely because it’s open, an open source project that does not work as advertised won’t stay around for long. If all you’re downloading is adware or crippleware, the community will soon be aware of it, and make sure everyone knows it too. If it was poorly designed or built, same story. In both cases, the project will simply sink into oblivion.
- Open source is transparent: whether you are dealing with a community-driven project or a vendor-led project, transparency is key. The 451 Group released a while back their open core transparency test, and out of the 14 open core vendors surveyed, not a single one had failed to clearly indicate the differences between their free and commercial versions.
Many detractors of open source (often the same ones who compete against open source products) refer to their open source competitors with a dismissive “you get what you pay for”. Some of these companies will go one step further and decide to release a free version of their product. Not open source – free as in “free Wifi on the Heathrow Express”. And in this case, guess what? The saying “you get what you pay for” does apply. For these companies, “free” is only a marketing strategy. They have no intention whatsoever to offer any value for free, only to hook potential clients. I can think of several examples, some of them right down my aisle.
At the end of the day, if it’s free and you can’t use it, it’s crap!
Yves
For the second year in a row, Talend is sponsoring Cloud Computing Expo in New York City. But this year, we came with a major announcement in our back pocket: the just-launched Talend Cloud, a cloud-enabled unified integration platform.Built on the foundation of the Talend Unified Platform that we premiered last month, Talend Cloud is the next step in our mission to unify data management and application integration.
In the past couple weeks, we have spoken to numerous industry analysts and journalists. The feedback on Talend Cloud has been overwhelmingly positive. Everyone is telling us we are right on target, and at the right time. After experimenting for a couple years, organizations are now ready to go mission critical with cloud deployments, and integration issues are more critical than ever. Especially when dealing with hybrid environments – combinations of on-premise, private cloud, public cloud and SaaS.
On the show floor, we have been discussing Talend Cloud for the past 2 days, and again the feedback from the audience is great, confirming our expectations that this solution comes at the right time.
What are the key points about Talend Cloud?
- Integration in hybrid environments, bringing together on-premise applications, databases & systems deployed in the cloud (private or public), and Software as a Service such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite.
- Advanced and comprehensive connectivity to all cloud and non-cloud technologies.
- Ability to deploy the integration platform itself in the cloud. This is true of course of the complete platform but also of individual components (data integration, data quality, master data management, enterprise service bus).
I will be back on this blog to provide further feedback as we receive reactions and coverage.
Yves
PS: I was interviewed by the Talend Channel on this topic, have a look!
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