Version 5 is now out, and with it come some product name changes. Specifically, the open source/community products are all being renamed to show their belonging to the “Talend Open Studio family”.  They are listed here:

• Talend Open Studio for Data Integration is the new name of Talend Open Studio, the most widely used open source data integration/ETL tool in the world.
• Talend Open Studio for Data Quality is the new name of Talend Open Profiler, the only open source enterprise data profiling tool.
• Talend Open Studio for MDM is the new name of Talend MDM Community Edition, the first – and only – open source MDM solution.
• Talend Open Studio for ESB is the new name of Talend ESB Studio Standard Edition, the easy to use open source ESB based on leading Apache Software Foundation integration projects. Continue reading ‘New Product Names in Talend v5′

After Orlando, Barcelona, and before India, Gartner held their Symposium in Australia last week. A much expected session of Symposium, and many other Gartner events, discusses how to deal with mega-vendors. Brett Winterford from IT News was in the room when Dennis Gaughan presented this session, and came back with some interesting – but not at all surprising – insight into the strategy of IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, the four mega vendors that rule IT today.

There are so many sound bites in Brett’s article that I wouldn’t know where to start – and my goal is not to plagiarize his article anyway.  Still, I couldn’t resist picking a few, see at the end of this post. Continue reading ‘The Truth is That They Don’t Care as Long as you Pay’