Talend's v1 open source data integration (etl) tool goes online

Talend Open Studio V1 provides organizations with the market’s best ETL tool for performance, interoperability, openness and connectivity

PARIS, France - October 5, 2006 -- Talend announced today that Version 1 of its ETL Open Source tool, Talend Open Studio, is now available on its website for free download.  This first version was officially launched and put online in Paris in the presence of a number of clients, partners, journalists and members of Talend’s Open Source community.

During this launch, several Talend Open Studios users spoke about their enthusiasm for the product and their very positive results in large-scale testing.  Included among the users were several large organizations from the telecom and insurance industries.  Their feed-back will be part of a separate news release in the next couple of days.

Since going online on September 19, the beta version of Talend Open Studio has been downloaded several thousand times.  The forum created to host comments from the user community has quickly grown/populated with user questions from around the world along with their recommendations and encouragement.  “We have been able to ensure the stability of the beta version and the absence of any major defects,” said Fabrice Bonan, co-founder of Talend, in charge of research and development.  “Thanks to the comments from community members, we have been able to quickly identify and resolve some minor bugs and implement new functionality.  We can now offer a completely stable V1 product, ready to deploy in live settings.  It offers all the best functionality of the most popular ETL tools on the market with exceptional performance and a remarkable opening.”

“Companies are faced with multiple challenges:  their volume of data is exploding, their IT systems are increasingly heterogeneous and complex, they have multiple user needs and the environment is continuously changing,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend.  “Talend Open Studio is a high performance solution, scalable and open to easily integrate data, simple, effective and cost-effective for companies to implement.  The existence of an ETL Open Source tool is a real revolution that confirms the strategic dimension of Open Source development.”

Several international partners attended the launch including MySQL, Object Web, Cap Gemini and Sopra.  They were pleased with the availability of such a solution on the market which until now, has been monopolized by proprietary tools which has considerably limited their development capabilities.  These renowned international partners confirmed the relevance and solidity of Talend’s approach.

Talend Open Studio V1, US-version for Windows and Linux, is now available for free download from www.talend.com.

About Talend

Talend is the first provider of open source software tools for the ETL market. The company provides solutions that break rank with the market by supplying open, innovative and more powerful software. Talend's software is distributed under open source license.

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