Along with other CEOs and leaders from the open source community, I signed last week a letter that was addressed to President Obama, urging him to mandate the consideration of the source of an application solution (open or closed) as part of the government’s technology acquisition process.

Obama’s campaign has probably been the most technology savvy campaign ever, and it’s encouraging to have as President of the United States, someone who appreciates the importance of science and technology and who wants to stimulate America’s growth in these areas.

We are eagerly waiting for the first actions of the goverment in this domain.  And hoping that other countries will follow suit - like France did with the recommendations of the Attali report.

Bertrand

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Maybe you remember an incident that happened 2 years ago during the Golden League in Rome - a French long jumper, Salim Sdiri, was hit by a javelin thrown by Finnish athlete, Tero Pitkämäki. The javelin thrower, one of the best in the world, was competing for first place when he slipped and (...)

31 juillet 2009 : A Japanese contributor

During my recent trip to Tokyo, I had the pleasure to meet with one of Talend’s biggest fan in Japan. Kensuke Saeki, pictured here (middle) with Vincent and myself, is an avid user of Talend Open Studio, and an important contributor to Talend Babili, our community translation (...)

30 juillet 2009 : Survey on the use of open source BI

Mark Madsen and the B Eye Network have just launched a pretty interesting survey on the use of open source BI technology - including ETL, database, reporting & analytics. All our readers are highly encouraged to take this survey - the more answers, the more accurate the data will be. (...)

22 juillet 2009 : About Community and Commercial Solutions

Note: this post originally appeared in Talend’s July Newsletter. Today, quite a lot of people think that open source means free software. This is partly because the word “free” (at least in English) connotes both “freedom” and “free of charge.” (...)

16 juillet 2009 : Forrester on strategic role of OSS

I strongly recommend that you read Jeffrey Hammond’s interview published by James Turner on the O’Reilly Radar’s Blog. A Principal Analyst in the Application Development and Program Management Group at Forrester research, Jeffrey is an expert in software development, Web (...)