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April 04, 2006
I'm an Open Source project - buy me
With an - umm - "interesting" choice in wording, Pentaho announce the acquisition of the Kettle project. Kettle is an Open Source project centered around data integration. Matt Casters' announcement on the same subject is more along the lines of the project "joining" Pentaho. Pentaho have hired Matt to be a data integrations architect there.
Posted by Matthew at April 4, 2006 04:06 PM
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Well, acquisition hardly sounds fair, but I guess that's what it is. And there are good reasons for calling it that way as well. It just makes sense.
Pentaho software is catering to developers in the Business Intelligence software market. That's right: "Business Intelligence", not "MP3 Intelligence" or something other. (Even that sounds doesn't sound fair to Winamp, does it? My apologies to the MP3 player developers! :-))
Just to get this completely out of the way: it can become a real strain to answer 50-100 e-mails and forum messages *a day* in your spare time. I guess that's a drawback of becoming a popular project.
So, at a certain point in time you have to make a decision: remain the constraint of the project and stay small or keep growing. The first options excludes most corporations from working with your software because there is just no time left for training, documentation, support, etc.
So you see, I'm actually very excited about working with the team from Pentaho because it offers a clear growth path for Kettle (whatever the name will be later on) and at the same time it offers a lot of opertunities for everyone involved, especially for the open source developers and certainly for companies that are interested in open source BI.
Just my 2 cents, take care,
Matt
Posted by: Matt Casters at April 11, 2006 03:01 PM