As usual French people are showing the trends ;-)

For the first time in Europe and perhaps in the world, a real conference day focusing on Open Source Business Intelligence will be hosted in Paris on March 18th.
Hosted beside the French Computer Museum in Paris business district of La Defense, this conference is very close to the «traditional proprietary conferences». I mean: it's free to attend. And despite to Steve Ballmer's statement «Free software means no free soda» free coffee and free lunch will be provided!

How is this possible? Just because Open Source companies everyday looks more and more like traditional companies with marketing and sponsorship budgets. And for this first ever main conference about OSBI all main vendors have decided to sponsor: SpagoBI, Ingres, Jaspersoft, MySQL, Talend, Pentaho... and tomorrow others.

If you are in Paris in March and if you don't agree with the much closed vision of Gartner about Open Source Business Intelligence just join us! Of course you need to learn French before ;-)

Registration is available on: http://www.amiando.com/forumbiopensource

After a year of consolidation and the birth of four main leaders in BI market (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP) Gartner see a new birth of young and innovative companies. Here is the list of companies you should follow in 2008 with links to their web sites:
FractalEdge: www.fractaledge.com
PivotLink: www.pivotlink.com
Oco: www.oco-inc.com
1010Data: www.1010data.com
Endeca: www.endeca.com
Advizor Solutions: www.advizorsolutions.com
Illuminate: www.i-lluminate.com
LucidEra: www.lucidera.com
Panoratio: www.panoratio.com
Greenplum: www.greenplum.com