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SEP 20, 2006 07:48:57, CIO.com

... Open-source software start-up Pentaho announced Tuesday the latest in a string of open-source project buys, with the acquisition of the Weka data mining and predictive analytics project developed by the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

The move follows the startup�s previous purchases of the Mondrian online analytical processing engine, the JFreeReport Java reporting library and the Kettle extract, transform and load project. Customers have told Pentaho that they prefer to be able to access related open-source projects from a single company and not have to worry about a particular project�s longevity or deal with the specific license governing that project�s intellectual property, Daley said.

Weka provides the final data mining piece for Pentaho to "round out" its BI suite, Daley said. The five core researchers in New Zealand who developed Weka will continue to contribute and work on the project. Although Pentaho didn�t reveal how much it paid for Weka, Daley said the vendor�s several acquisitions have made little dent in the US$13 million the company has raised so far in venture capital funding.

Developers can continue to use the standalone open-source version of Weka under the GNU general public license. At the same time, Pentaho plans to incorporate the Weka functionality into its BI software and create a commercial version of the product to be renamed Pentaho Data Mining.

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