I really hope Pentaho makes a compelling product. But they have a long road ahead. They’ve incorporated projects that were developed independently, use different methods for accessing data and do not share the same quality in the code base. The programs will change and users that build to one version will find their tools broken upon the next version release. That’s part of the practical downside of open-source. Until the product has matured, it will be a moving target.
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