With the opening of the Apple iPhone AppStore on iTunes and with the iPhone2.0 software, I decided to take a look for iPhone BI apps.

The first, from Pentaho, is open source. "Pentaho's BI extension for iPhone works with Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.7. Download and configuration instructions, as well as a short, recorded video demonstration are available..." from Pentaho's iPhone page. Matt Casters has more on his blog, "pentaho and the iphone".

The second is not open source, but is free from iTunes, but "Requires the licensing of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, Enterprise Edition Plus, and Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, Fusion Edition..." Wow.

Even though I have the latest iTunes7.7, it's showing that my iPhone1.1.4 is up to date. We'll have to start playing with these as soon as iPhone2.0 is generally available - later today maybe.

I recently joined Twitter. I must share the following:

Roebot: #e20 note to organizers: If your panelists do NOT know what SOAP and REST are they prolly shouldn't be on a mashup panel!!! WTF!! about 5 hours ago from twhirl
-- Aaron Roe Fulkerson on Twitter

To which I responded:

Joseph_di_P: @Roebot wiki(SOAP) is what you use in tub to get clean; wiki(REST) is what you do in tub when not using SOAP :-D Easy, yah! about 1 hour ago from Hahlo in reply to Roebot
-- my response on Twitter

I know, I know, all the important stuff happening in the Open Source BI related world this week, and this is what I blog about. Is it a sign of dementia when you crack yourself up?

Here's some of the more important stuff that's been happening:

• Executive movement at EnterpriseDB, as told by Andy Astor
• The Pentaho BI Platform goes GPLv2, and Nick Goodman talks about it
• SnapLogic v2 released with webinars, one was today and the next is on June 18
• The new JasperSoft CEO blogs a bit
• The Pentaho community meetup in Mainz, Germany is about to start
• MuleSource is demoing the new Mule components working together
• Your iPhone will no longer need to be jailbroken, after iPhone 2 firmware, to work with myFunambol and even better than Apple's mobileMe, myFunambol is on track to sync Notes, per the press release

There's much else to do, including some additions to our linkblog with open source for MDM and more open source communities. But, I'm tweeting.

PalmSource, an Access CO, LTD company, has been making several announcements in advance of their PalmSource day at LinuxWorldSF this coming Wednesday, August 16, including:

• the growing momentum of their Access Linux Platform (ALP)
• being named an Orange approved platform
• the ALP developers' network
• and the one getting the most press is about their new open source library for file management using SQLite, libsqlfs

If you're at LinuxWorldSF this week, look for us [we'll be wearing black shirts with the following embroidery...

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We can talk about PalmSource and ALP, open source business intelligence, data warehousing and collaboration, or whatever else comes up. Maybe we'll even publish it as a podcast.

See you at LinuxWorld.