A Few Weeks Rich in Interactions

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Last week I had the privilege of attending the Open Source Think Tank organized by Olliance Group and DLA Piper in Paris.* Over two days, some of the greatest minds in open source in Europe were joined by a fair number of their US colleagues and discussed many topics, from the legal implication of open source licenses to some very specific case studies involving Airbus and the Danish Government, to software M&A and to Cloud computing and its impact on open source. Overall, a very rich and diverse environment and lots of great interactions.

The same week, the third edition of the Open World Forum was held in Paris.* The event, still managed by volunteers, is becoming more professional by the year. I enjoyed the Open Analyst Summit which featured Matt Aslett, Jeff Hammond and Matthieu Poujol, as well as some of the sessions on open source marketing & communities.* The highlight for Talend was probably the Demo Cup, during which we had to demo innovation in less than 8 minutes!* Not an easy feat, but we won an Open Innovation Award.

On Friday (October 8th), we will be in Boulder, Colorado to brief the Boulder BI Brain Trust – BBBT for short.* This highly respected institution is a group of independent analysts who are getting together every other week to receive in-depth updates from vendors.* The fame of the BBBT has long spread beyond the Colorado borders, even the US borders, and some analysts are usually attending from all Texas, California, Massachusetts, The Netherlands, South Africa, and more!* This promises to be an interesting morning of interactions.

And let’s not forget that we have a new version coming out soon (since we are on a 6-month release cycle, I am not blowing away any secret here).* I can’t reveal yet the key major new features of version 4.1, but let me say that this version is going to make a blast and change the way some people look at data management.* And who says new version, says press & analyst briefings.* Along with my colleagues in product marketing, we have been busy explaining the new features and their benefits – more phone calls and face to face meetings.* Stay tuned for this announcement next week!

These are busy times.* But interactions with our peers, with the analyst and press community, and with our community at large, are one of the aspects of the job that I enjoy the most.

Yves




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