Dear Readers,
Well, I get some strange feedbacks about my last post, so I write a new update on this subject to clarify some ideas.
It is an evidence that commercial companies have an interest in making money, so an interest in beeing profitable. In the open source area, beeing profitable means either selling commercial licences and [...]
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Dear Readers,
Pentaho has just announced they will embrace GPLV2 licence type for their next release of the Pentaho Platform 1.7 GA. There are other well-known recent precedent of products changing their licence policy, such as EXT Framework or MyGWT library (for those we are currently using), bringing some confusion in the Open Source community
In those [...]
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Dear Readers,
We did it ! We have embeded a FreeDashboard document (both static and dynamic) into Liferay ! And its running well.
We are now in position to offer a Dashboard service that put together Pentaho xaction (basically reports and charts), FreeMetrics Alerts, FreeMetrics KPIs, FreeAnalysis Olap reports and any kind of label / picture [...]
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Dear FreeDashBoard Fans !
We have workded hard to have Milestone 2 is available on time. Over the last 2 weeks, since Milestone 1 availability, we have received so many good messages talking about the interest of the product, and how easy it was to build a Pentaho Dashboard using our Designer. We are so happy [...]
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Hello,
I’m about to leave HongKong, were I was in charge of the first Pentaho Training in Asia, on behalf of Pentaho, for a limited but motivated number of trainees (8 skillfull people). This training was organised by Brainchild, Pentaho partner for the Asia region. I want to thank Patrick Choi for the organisation of this [...]
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Dear readers,
It appears that Matt Casters and its crasy super Kettle ETL software reached out an important step in their development cycle. Kettle 3.00 is about to be released, (please read Matt’s blog for additional information), and it will be the first major upgrade for Kettle since its broad adoption by the open source [...]
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Good news today !
So many things happened since we’ve started our Open Source adventure, both good things and bad things, and we always tried to make the good things even better, and to work hard to have the bad things becoming “bad old souvenir”
But the best of the best is always the birth of a [...]
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Its been 2 years that we started using the Pentaho platform, since our first mail conversation with James Dixon and Richard Daley. Evolution of the Platform is so impressionant, with the addition of ETL, Reporting and Olap engine, Datamining and recently Metadata management and Web reporting facilities.
Internally in my company, turning the activity from commercial [...]
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As some may already know, along with the development of the FreeAnalysis Platform, we are promoting the Pentaho Open Source BI platform. Pentaho is a nice platform, that embed usefull engine such as a report engine (JFreeReport, from Thomas Morgner), a rolap engine (Mondrian) and an ETL engine (Kettle, from Matt Casters).
My company is regularly [...]
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