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Pentaho released an update to its open-source business intelligence software that makes it a more viable option for corporate users, industry analysts said.

JasperSoft, the open-source business intelligence vendor, is claiming that it is now the world's most widely deployed BI product.

Nokia Australia has replaced the core management system used at its customer care centres across Australia with a solution built entirely on open source technology.

Despite its strong ties to proprietary software vendors, the Australian Taxation Office has finally dipped its toes into open source by establishing a Linux-based system for information analytics.

Just a few years ago, the world of open source packages for generating database reports was a quiet secret shared by programmers on a deadline. Anyone could spend a few minutes linking in a library to start generating relatively clean tables filled with data pulled from an SQL database. I've personally made a few clients happy by adding JasperReports to some projects with just a bit of XML and a JAR file.