Pentaho fires back across SAS' bows over "limited" open source appeal

Open source business intelligence player Pentaho has hit back at the criticism of open source BI by the CEO of SAS Institute, Dr Jim Goodnight.

In our story yesterday Goodnight said of the open source business intelligence competition: "We haven't noticed that a lot. Most of our companies need industrial strength software that has been tested, put through every possible scenario or failure to make sure everything works correctly. That's what you're getting from software companies like us - they're well tested and it scales to very, very large amounts of data."

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