Microsoft Supports Open Source Tool

March 2008 Microsoft is talend and data integration vendors, in order to optimize the companys flagship product, Open Studio tools on the Windows platform.

talend is Los Altos, California-based open-source solutions for the migration and integration of business systems. The open studio is a ETL (extraction, transformation, loading) tools, business intelligence and data warehousing. Open studio has been downloaded more than 150,000 times since it is published in October 2006, in accordance with yves Tak montcheuil, talend global vice president of marketing.

open studio is a free, open-source products, which talend sales support through its integrated suite subscriptions. The kit also includes a number of other features designed to facilitate the work of teams and large-scale industrialization of the enterprise-class deployment. Talend demand for the products, consolidate talend open studio History and project information online, common repository hosted by the company.

"Our mission is to enable applications and the exchange of information systems and the exchange of information," De montcheuil said. "Of course, no information system is a purely open-source or purely proprietary. This means that we must work with. " "data integration", and is mobile and data with the national information system. This process typically involves extracting data from the source is usually a database, but the source could be documents, applications, network services, and even e-mail into its accession to locate and / or calculated, and then loading data into the target system .

open studio ships about 200 connector, for a variety of sources and targets, in the information systems, and if montcheuil said. The companys products include support for the widely used Microsoft applications. In talend collaboration with Microsoft will allow customers to leverage their existing Windows infrastructure deployment of open studios.

collaboration also stressed that Microsofts continued, although uneasy, and open source.

, "more than 50 percent of the deployment of open-source applications in the enterprise, running on Windows systems," Sam ramji, Microsofts general platform technology strategy, said in a statement.