Comments for My Ramblings on Open Source BI at http://www2.nextanalytics.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www2.nextanalytics.com Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:49:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www2.nextanalytics.com/nextanalyticsBlog/BusinessAnalytics/My-Ramblings-on-Open-Source-BI.html#comment-23 Ward, I'm glad to see you're still plugging along. What drove me to your site, actually, is your pending Kognitio announcement, but being here I'll comment -- There is such a thing as free, commercial open source, in the form of robust community editions from companies that include, in the BI/DW realm, the ones I cited in my article (which I'll note was written to Information Week style): Pentaho, JasperSoft, Engineering (SpagoBI), Jedox (Palo), Actuate (Eclipse BIRT), Talend, EnterpriseDB (PostgresPlus), InfoBright, MonetDB, LucidDB, and surely others that I'm not thinking of right off. Free, as in "free beer," but not always as in "free speech" given that non-sponsor developers aren't welcome to contribute to some of these projects. You even have projects like the Mondrian ROLAP server where one company is paying the majority of the development costs and other, competing companies freely use the software. I don't see this situation -- that you CAN do high-end BI with 100% free, commercially backed open-source software (a.k.a. commercial open source) -- any time soon. Seth - SethGrimes Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:13:23 +0100