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- A Christmas gift from our Community :)
We’ve just found out about a program developed by a customer migrating their DataStage (IBM Infosphere) projects to Talend. They were looking for a solution to make the migration as automatized as possible and developed two programs that greatly improved efficiency. And, in the true open source spirit they have made it available for all in SourceForge.
The first program audits the DataStage project so as to better understand its complexity and get an accurate evaluation of the number of consulting days required to migrate the project from DataStage to Talend.
The second program is a “Converter” that automatically translates the DataStage jobs into Talend jobs! Of course not everything can be done automatically, especially the custom developments in DataStage. Still, this cuts the time and effort required to do the migration in half—a tremendous help.In times like these, when many companies are looking for ways to reduce their IT maintenance bills, a solution facilitating the migration to a cost-effective open source solution like Talend is very welcome!
Who might be interested? Customers who have already done the migration cite three main reasons:
1. Cost control and cost reduction - to fight the ever increasing maintenance bills.
• With the increase in data volume and number of CPUs on the servers, IBM maintenance fees are getting higher and higher. Not a problem on Talend per user licensing.
• IBM is aggressively pushing their customers to migrate from DataStage Server to DataStage PX - more expensive and based on a totally different product architecture.
2. Benefit from a better solution - better GUI, performance, architecture and connectivity.
3. Leverage the open source advantages - lower TCO, faster development cycle, use of Standards, adaptability, support from a Community, and no lock-in.If you’re interested in learning more about this - and about the partners that could help you with this migration - don’t hesitate to contact me (jsolansATtalend.com).
Happy Holidays!
Jean-Luc
Talend blog
- Jaspersoft’s financing round: yes, we can!
Congratulations are in order for the Jaspersoft team, under the leadership of Brian Gentile, who have announced earlier this month that they have secured $12.5m in venture funding from Adams Street Partners and Red Hat.
This announcement is significant for Jaspersoft and for the whole open source community.
For Jaspersoft of course, because it is a further validation of their model and of the great traction they have been getting over the past 2 years on many global markets. As one of the other dominant players in open source BI, and as a close partner to Jaspersoft, Talend is in a good position to witness this growth - and indeed, Jaspersoft is present in more deals, more markets, and more partnerships than ever. The involvement of Red Hat is also great news, given the strategic partnership between Jaspersoft and Red Hat and the weight that they represent in the overall open source community.
For the whole open source community, because it proves that in these uncertain economical times, there is funding available for successful companies: companies with traction, with a track record, with a solid business model, with a strong team - in short, with a recipe for success. Jaspersoft has found this recipe. I draw my (green) hat to Brian and his team, and I am proud that Talend is associated to such a successful company. Together, we can!
Bertrand
- Open Source - Shelter from the Storm
We’ve all heard more than we want to about proliferating layoffs. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been touched in some way - either they’ve been affected themselves, or they know someone who has. And this is a bad time to be out of work. TechCrunch has been tracking layoffs since late August and, as of December 16th, has counted 108,961 layoffs at 304 companies worldwide.
Companies who aren’t laying off are battening down. Analyst Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities said to InfoWorld: “Campus recruiting has been scaled back, raises have been frozen. Hiring freeze, training freeze, travel freeze, Friday beer-bash freeze, free-laundry freeze, and end to discounts on laptops are now in full effect.” It’s cold out there!
And yet…
The open source world is actually in pretty good shape. Matt Asay suggests in the same article that this isn’t due to superior management, “but rather a built-in throttle that scales hiring to downloads and other indicators of incoming interest in one’s open source product. As such, we tend to hire more cautiously and only when the market has demonstrated that it can support those hires.”
And no, these aren’t sunny skies. The economic climate is below bad and IT spending is off. But open source is still the best way for companies to cut IT costs and the indications are that we’ll be there for the long haul.
Bertrand
- More on my appointment as Chairman of AFDEL’s open source subcommittee
“The human being was not meant to belong to a herd, like cattle, but to a hive, like the bee.”
– Emmanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View.NOTE: I don’t usually blog about specifically French topics - thanks to the rest of you for your patience.
A few weeks ago I was chosen as President of AFDEL’s open source subcommittee. AFDEL - the Association Française des Editeurs de Logiciels - is a French consortium to which belong the most important software publishers in France today - Microsoft, Cegid, Dassault Systems, Pivotal, W4, etc. Members may be of foreign origin as long as they maintain a subsidiary in France.
The creation of a subcommittee dedicated to open source and another dedicated to SaaS has been very well received by the press (ZD Net, CIO Online, and others). I must say that it would have been a shame to ignore this event. The AFDEL - formed in October 2005 in response to the lack of representation of software vendors in France - originally only included proprietary vendors. We had had several times heated (although always cordial and constructive) on is views about open source. But at least a debate existed.
The creation of the open source and SaaS subcommittees is a very important step for AFDEL. On one hand, it means that its members recognize the emergence of a new way of distributing software and one whose success has been astonishing. According to Markess International, the global SaaS market is expected to reach €1.48 billion in 2008, representing over 13% of the French market for software. Moreover, AFDEL members recognize the existence of the open source model for both business and development and agree that today open source fills a need. And, failing to adopt it (for now!!!) they accept co-existence. It’s an historic moment and a major will to consider globally the software business.
I did not expect that such a breakthrough would be attacked by certain open source “purists” (or those considering themselves as such). Some use open source for ideological reasons (because the concept is elegant, etc.) Talend chose this model because it allows the development of durable technology meeting very real enterprise needs. We’re pragmatic, we’re in the market, we’re not ideological, we’re growing our business by making money, and no, we haven’t made a pact with the devil! We have definitely proven that we respect deeply our model and our community and this is the reason why I have chosen to be involved in this adventure and to serve more broadly our position as a commercial open source vendor and a key player (at least from my standpoint) in the software world.
It’s no secret that Talend is a business supported by investors who, in turn, expect a return on investment. This is also a guarantee for our project and our users that we’re in it for the long haul.
Calling Talend’s acceptance by AFDEL a betrayal of the ideals of open source is nonsense - we are in no way denying our philosophy, but we’re pragmatic. The promotion of open source within AFDEL is actually an opportunity that we would be stupid to ignore, and that would be me first, as Talend’s CEO. I must take this role very seriously, not so much for the benefit of Talend which has been able to grow without getting into politics or polemics, but for the benefit of the software industry, and also to be able to tell the world that France is a unmatched fertile ground for innovation potential.
And so I call upon all our colleagues to look beyond ideology and to stand with us in order to grow open source. Don’t join the herd of fanatical ideologues, but rather our hive of specialists entirely dedicated to their roots and their clients.
The future of open source lies in its use by businesses, regardless of size, and by government and institutions. What’s the point if not to devote as much effort as possible to the development of these solutions? Isn’t there a contradiction between the desire to simply find alternatives to proprietary solutions and the completely idealistic will to overcome any need for funding? In my opinion, Talend has found the right balance and it is our duty to help reproducing this experience. Here is my goal, clear and simple:
- Show that the open source model has a role to play in the software world
- Promote its values and assets
- Show to the world the stakes of this evolution
To conclude - I will not waste time getting involved in polemics on commonplace and worthless discussions. I want to build a dialog and leverage the values that present our world with a fantastic opportunity.
Bertrand
- Talend Open Studio 2.4.4 released (Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:18:50 GMT)
<br />Released at Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:18:50 GMT by plegall<br />Includes files: TOS-All-r20534-V2.4.4.zip (231990182 bytes, 51 downloads to date), TOS-Win32-r20534-V2.4.4.exe (193121943 bytes, 54 downloads to date)<br /><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=181308&package_id=209973&release_id=645755">[Download]</a> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=645755">[Release Notes]</a>
SourceForge.net: Project File Releases: Talend Open Studio