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Hello Kettle fans, Like Roland I got confirmation earlier this week that I could present my talk on “MySQL and Pentaho Data Integration in a cloud computing setting”, at the next MySQL user conference. I’m very excited about the work we’ve done on the subject and it’s going to be great talking about it in April. See you [...]

Hello data integration fans, In the course of the last year or so there have been a number of benchmarks on blogs here and there that claimed a certain “result” pertaining to performance of both Talend and Pentaho Data Integration (PDI a.k.a. Kettle).  Usually I tend to ignore these results a bit, but a recent benchmark [...]

Next week I’ll be in Orlando for another week of brainstorming, planning scheming, plotting for world domination and yes, even coding. Q : “What are you going to do next week?” A : “The same thing I do every time when I’m in Orlando - Try to take over the world!” So I went to kayak and entered [...]

Looking great! Until next time, Matt

Hi Kettle fans, In another community contribution explosion, Ronny Roeller added the “Number ranges” step.  Samatar in turn wanted it so badly he committed the code the instant he saw it. (in 3.2.0-M1) This is what it does: Steps like this are great because they push us into the business realm and lift us out of the world [...]

Dear Kettle fans, I’ve implemented PDI-1831 today which basically improves usability of Spoon in the execution/logging dept. Adding a preview menu item to the step right-click menu A “clear log before execution” option in the execution dialog ... [More] (enabled by default) Prevent the Execution results pane tabs from losing focus / de-selected Adding graphical indicators to see which step in the [...] [Less]

Dear Canonical, You claim that there is little money in the desktop software business and more in services.  Well here is something I would pay money for: Take the top selling business laptops from Dell, Acer, HP, Lenovo and offer customized distributions for them. I would pay for that in an instant.  All too often people confuse open [...]

It was the exception to the rule: Matt Asays latest blog entry was interesting.  It asked the question: “Is commercial open source possible?“.  The interesting part actually comes from quotes from Lawrence Lessigs book Remix. The whole discussion ... [More] revolves around the awkwardness of asking for money in an open source setting.  A few of the original [...] [Less]

Good news Kettle fans! Our community is bound to become a bit larger as a whole group of students (38) at the Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen (Batchelor level) will receive a one day workshop with Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle).  This workshop will take place in early November, most likely the 4th. It’s interesting to see that during that [...]

Belgian consultancy company Element 61 has just posted an opinion piece under the disguise of a review on open source ETL. What a load of utter nonsens.  Try reading this: Instead of using SQL statements to transform data, an Open Source ETL tool gives the developer a standard set of functions, error handling rules and database connections. [...]