With its purchase of the New Zealand-based Weka open source data mining project, Pentaho demonstrates its commitment to providing a comprehensive open source business intelligence suite, according to a company spokesperson. A Ventana Research analyst confirms that the move is a good thing, noting that data mining is one of the top BI capabilities that users look for. Weka team members aren’t disappointed either, according to this piece, which says the project has grown such that it needs commercial-grade support and resources to continue.
Chris DiBona, the open source program manager for Google, shares his philosophy. Read Lora’s summary on how Google is implementing the Summer of Code.
Google often gets a bad rap when it comes to “open source citizenship? because many don’t think the company gives back as much open source code as it uses. And its lack of support for the Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3 doesn’t help matters. But as News.com writer Stephen Shankland found, Google’s open source program manager, Chris DiBona, isn’t all that worried about what open source businesses or open source evangelists think about Google. His philosophy is to focus on the open source developers: