Open Source Solutions

Continuing our conversation with James Dixon and Lance Walter of Pentaho, we explore open source licensing, advantages and challenges. We talk about the needs of the users, and the drivers for open source business intelligence. One observation from James and Lance is that the professional business models that have recently come about for open source projects has provided the framework for open source enterprise applications to be developed. Some topics we covered:

• The complexity and challenges of bringing together different open source projects into the Pentaho suite or stack, with different license types.
• Current legal status of open source licenses
• Motivators for developers to consider open source
• Adoption of Open Source in the enterprise space
• The growth of Business Intelligence overall
• Open Source facilitates BI prototyping, customization, implementations and acceptance
• Making BI transparent

Pentaho Overview, Part 2

Don't miss Part 1 of this podcast, OSC Podcast Overview.
We expect to post the final part of this podcast on Thursday, 2006 March 09. Come back then to listen to James and Lance talk about the Pentaho Community.

Update: Part 3 is now available for download.

We would like to thank DOVAL for permission to use excerpts from his hit single "Love Lost" for our opening and closing tracks.