Paul Doscher, JasperSoft CEO, meet Sam Mohamad, CEO of Greenplum. Good, now that the introduction is out of the way, you two should pick up the phone and start talking about how you can work together. Although it appeared that neither of you knew about the other last week, both of your companies announced themselves this morning, along with open source BI tools. Mr. Doscher, you provide reporting in the form of JasperReports. Mr. Mohammed, your company provides data warehousing software that Greenplum CTO Luke Lonergan explained to me is not only complimentary to reporting tools from the likes of Business Objects and Cognos, but works to ensure that those tools perform better.Greenplum as of today offers what it calls “Super Warehousing” software and JasperSoft has an embeddable reporting engine and a front-end reporting tool. So, your technologies could be fit to work together and, more important, could potentially make open source BI more attractive to customers. My colleague InfoWorld editor at large Ephraim Schwartz, who co-authored the news story about JasperSoft and Greenplum with me, tracked down customers to gauge their reaction to open source BI. One said he was willing to give it a try; the other commented that open source simply doesn’t meet his requirements for an RFP. But if you two CEO’s, Mr. Doscher and Mr. Mohamed, work together — or better yet put your CTO’s Barry Klawans and Luke Lonergan, respectively, on the job — to figure out a way to make DeepGreen ensure that JasperReports performs anywhere close to Cognos and Business Objects, that could potentially go a long way toward convincing prospective customers that open source might be right for their BI needs. Once you integrate your products with each other, you can get together with SpikeSource CEO Kim Polese. I don’t believe introductions are necessary as you both mentioned SpikeSource in our discussions last week. But just in case, SpikeSource offers certification services for open source products. Certify DeepGreen as the warehousing product that works in conjunction with JasperDecisions reporting engine and JasperReports front-end and, voila, you have a certified partially open source warehouse, engine and reporting presentation layer. Or take it one step further and offer a version of DeepGreen with JasperDecisions embedded into it. I know, I know. None of this is as nearly as easy as I am making it out to be. In fact, a partnership between your companies might not work, but if you do manage to pull it off, and maybe even certify your collective of products to work within the rest of an open source stack, well, that certainly won’t guarantee success, but it just might get you in the door that leads to IT shops. I wouldn’t waste any time, either, because this morning MySQL inked a pact with Business Objects that will see the MySQL database embedded into Business Objects XI. Software Development