I spent most of last week at the Red Hat Summit in Boston. The Red Hat team did a good job creating a conference that seemed to deliver real value to a reported 1,000 attendees from their developer community and customer base. Many great conversations occurred in a wide variety of technical sessions - and you could sense the continued progress of open source throughout the event. Because the Summit represents a sizable gathering of those who are faithful users of open source technology, this seemed like a natural place for us to debut what is the most important product upgrade in Jaspersoft’s history. Jaspersoft was a sponsor and exhibitor, but much more importantly, we used this Summit as the launch point for Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite v3. Fortunately, the press and analyst opinion of our new products has been outstanding and we already have a dozen early customers and thousands of engaged community members who have endorsed Jaspersoft v3. If you are among these early reviewers and adopters, I thank you for your time and many positive contributions.

Also at the Red Hat Summit, we announced a new OEM partnership with Red Hat. JasperServer Professional will be embedded within the Red Hat Network (Satellite) to provide sophisticated reporting and analytics on a wide variety of systems management and monitoring information. The real winners are Red Hat customers as the new reporting and analytics capabilities they’ll receive via Jaspersoft will far surpass what is in place today.

As a team, we’ve worked on Jaspersoft v3 for many months. I’m most proud that this release includes so much functionality that began with the Jaspersoft community. Because of this, we are now eager to deliver the generally available release back for review and use. Immediately, the 30-day trial version of Jaspersoft v3 Professional Edition is available (at http://www.jaspersoft.com/jasper softv3_eval_landing_download.html ) for download. By June 30, the Jaspersoft v3 Community Edition will be available (at www.jasperforge.org ) for full download. As you experience either edition of v3, your comments and feedback are wanted and anticipated.

And, thanks again for making the Jaspersoft BI Community the most vibrant and valuable on the planet.

Brian Gentile
Chief Executive Officer
Jaspersoft