The Jitterbit site now makes it difficult to find a community build other than a latest build – try looking for a GA or stable release without paying first! Jitterbit claims (disclaims?):
Jitterbit Community edition is a development snapshot, offering the latest build of Jitterbit as we move towards our next major release. The Jitterbit Community Edition is primarily tested and supported by the open source community and because of its “early release” nature it is NOT recommended for production use. The Community edition of Jitterbit comes with limited installation support from Jitterbit and does not include certification, QA (quality assurance) or support and services for production deployment.
Technicalities aside, this is contrary to the spirit of Open Source Software – it may technically comply with the OSD but …
You don’t see Redhat implying that Fedora is not stable enough for prime-time!
I want to be clear that I respect the company’s right to sell their very high quality software and hope it is successful but InfoWorld should take back thier BOSSIE award (if it was this year) and their use of an org domain is a sham … Open Source it isn’t.
Twice, I have had clients purchase five-figure subscriptions to open source software based on the results and confidence they acquired through consulting engagements with the community versions – Can’t do this with Jitterbit!
They are just using the label open source for marketing hype and impact leaving Pentaho (Kettle), Jasper (Talend) and SnapLogic in my os integration tool bag.
