I attended Pentaho‘s “Open Source BI: The Smart and Safe Alternative to Proprietary BI”, which was interesting but not as polished as it should have been. Like everyone that week they have been hit by the commercial air travel ban over UK, and Europe. So all due credit to them for not cancelling, and to the marketing lead, Sam, who made it over from the USA. Source Sense co-hosted and Marco Abis had a very cool story about the power of twitter helping him hitch hike from Paris.
A couple of very interesting points where brought up, around the adoption of open source. The first one that grabbed me was the key markets being flagged for disruption by open source this year as: Web Context Management, Social Networking and Business Intelligence. I had not thought of open source having fully moved up to challenge in the application space. But perhaps it is true. Linux is certainly becoming as common an OS in the data centre as Solaris, HPUX, or Window’s Server. What of the middle ware market? At the webserver end no one would challenge Apache and Jboss is certainly player in the J2EE space but I would still consider it disrupting this space especially from the ESB side along with vendors such as MuleSourse.
A quick Goggle search suggests that this list came from a survey at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Thanks Paula for posting on it .
Another quote that surprised me was a statistic from BeyeNETWORK (Open Source Solutions: Managing, Analyzing and Delivering Business Information ), that only 19% of business are not looking at Open Source BI. Having taken a serious look, much more than today’s demo, I can see why. For commercial open source the majority of that interest will be in Pentaho or Jaspersoft. Gartner quote some impressive procurement numbers for the sector.
I’d have to say I agree that, at least for BI, open source is a major disruptive influence in the market. That along with Microsoft’s commodity approach to BI could really change the market.
I attended Pentaho’s “Open Source BI: The Smart and Safe Alternative to Proprietary BI”, which was interesting but not as polished as it should have been. Like everyone that week they have been hit by the commercial air travel ban over UK, and Europe. So all due credit to them for not cancelling, and to the marketing lead, Sam, who made it over from the USA. Source Sense co-hosted and Marco Abis had a very cool story about the power of twitter helping him hitch hike from Paris.
A couple of very interesting points where brought up, around the adoption of open source. The first one that grabbed me was the key markets being flagged for disruption by open source this year as: Web Context Management, Social Networking and Business Intelligence. I had not thought of open source having fully moved up to challenge in the application space. But perhaps it is true. Linux is certainly becoming as common an OS in the data centre as Solaris, HPUX, or Window’s Server. What of the middle where market? At the webserver end no one would challenge Apache and Jboss is certainly player in the J2EE space but I would still consider it disrupting this space especially from the ESB side along with vendors such as MuleSourse.
A quick Goggle search suggests that this came from a survey at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Thanks Paula for posting on it (http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2181).
Another quote that surprised me was a statistic from BeyeNETWORK (Open Source Solutions: Managing, Analyzing and Delivering Business Information ), that only 19% of business are not looking at Open Source BI. Having taken a serious look, much more than today’s demo, I can see why. For commercial open source the majority of that interest will be in Pentaho or Jaspersoft. Gartner quote some impressive procurement numbers for the sector (http://intelligent-enterprise.informationweek.com/blog/archives/2010/04/gartners_take_o.html;jsessionid=VBP5JXVAE0H3NQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN).
I’d have to say I agree that, at least for BI, open source is a major disruptive influence in the market. That along with Microsoft’s commodity approach to BI could really change the market.
