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Introduction to Agile BI presentation available online

James wrote 2 weeks ago: As part of Pentaho’s Agile BI initiative: This recorded presentation is based on the Agile BI … more →

Tags: Business Intelligence, Open-Source

Pentaho Agile BI technical web event - Nov 6 at 10am Eastern

James wrote 3 weeks ago: I will be talking about Pentaho’s development focus for the near future and our Agile BI initi … more →

The Free Software movement limits its own future17 comments

James wrote 1 month ago: Bradley M. Kuhn posted recently that “Open Core” Is the New Shareware In it he trots out … more →

Tags: Licenses, Microsoft, Open-Source

Open source narrative - growing not dying1 comment

James wrote 1 month ago: Brian Prentice at Gartner wrote a post titled Open Source’s Dying Narrative in which he talks about … more →

Tags: Open-Source

No open source decision needed for Pentaho6 comments

James wrote 1 month ago: Seth Grimes at Intelligent Enterprise posted an article today – Open Source Decision Time for … more →

Tags: Business Intelligence, Open-Source

Misunderstanding open source #4: not knowing your own alignment3 comments

James wrote 1 month ago: Many people are confused about the free software vs open source debate because they don’t know … more →

Tags: Microsoft, Open-Source

Misunderstanding open source #3: applying 'Free Software' religion to open source business models15 comments

James wrote 1 month ago: Applying the philosophies of the Free Software movement to the world of open source business models … more →

Tags: Open-Source

Microstrategy and Panorama showing signs of stress from open source1 comment

James wrote 2 months ago: A while back Red Hat did a great video called ‘Truth Happens’ based on this Mohandas Gan … more →

Tags: Open-Source, Business Intelligence

Pentaho V3.5 beta available

James wrote 3 months ago: A beta version (known as ‘Release Candidate 1′) of Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition V … more →

Tags: Business Intelligence

Commercial Open Source - What is that?

windowstolinux wrote 3 months ago: You probably think of Red Hat, JBoss, or even SugarCRM as vendors that hawk products when you think … more →

Tags: Open-Source, Enterprise Software, Business Model, CRM, ERP, Linux, Monetization, SugarCRM

I will be on BlogTalkRadio - Frugal Friday Show this Friday (May 29th)

James wrote 6 months ago: This coming Friday I will be on the Frugal Friday Show – http://www.frugalfridayshow.com talki … more →

Tags: Open-Source, Licenses, Business Intelligence, Microsoft

Is Microsoft Changing Their Open Source Strategy?1 comment

James wrote 6 months ago: Jay Lyman at the 451 Group put out a post yesterday – Microsoft realigning closer to open sour … more →

Tags: Open-Source, Microsoft

Government procurement and open source2 comments

James wrote 6 months ago: ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn did a post recently about potential changes in the European Union … more →

Tags: Open-Source

Pentaho / OpenMRS student project at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair1 comment

James wrote 6 months ago: Over the past few months I have been mentoring two students, Zueber Juma and Tej Amin, from Lake Hig … more →

Tags: Open-Source, Business Intelligence

Open source fanatics - choose wisely3 comments

James wrote 6 months ago: Every once in a while I get a feeling that one of the things holding open source / free software bac … more →

Tags: Open-Source

SugarCRM Professional wins 'best open source solution' award. Huh?1 comment

James wrote 6 months ago: The Software & Information Industry Association has given SugarCRM Professional an award for … more →

Tags: Open-Source

Sales inquiries increases x15 at MySQL2 comments

James wrote 6 months ago: Looks like the Oracle acquisition of Sun is helping MySQL – according to Zack Urlocker (MySQL … more →

Tags: Open-Source, Datawarehousing

More Pentaho project ideas

James wrote 6 months ago: I have just added a few more ideas to the open projects page in the Pentaho community wiki – h … more →

Tags: Open-Source, Business Intelligence

Sourceforge Community Award Nominations are open - please vote (for us)

James wrote 6 months ago: Sourceforge has opened the nominations for their 2009 Community Choice Awards. Pentaho qualifies in … more →

Tags: Open-Source, Business Intelligence


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