In continuing my series wrapping up our Intalio User Conference 2008 today's article will focus on Ismael Ghalimi, our beloved CEO and co-founder. His session amounted to a State of the Union address for Intalio. (Other presentations from the conference are available on our forum.)

James Taylor also posted an article on Ismael's talk over at his blog - Smart (enough) Systems.

Here are some points Ismael made during his talk:

• Impressive growth (35k strong community in 40 countries).
• COSMO - Commercial Open Source Model - has been receiving positive traction in the industry, and built an incremental sales process.
• Intalio manages the largest process in the world.
• Brought up the D3 model (another session discussed in more detail) which has reduced Intalio's costs and made the company more responsive the customer needs.
• Ismael outlined exit paths for:
  • BEA Fuego, to be discontinued by Oracle.
  • Tibco Staffware, disappointing results last quarter
• Iona will be acquired in 2008 [well that was quick, it happened in the week since the conference]. The buyer seems lukewarm to open source.
• Intalio will support ServiceMix ourselves.
• Key growth in a number of verticals: Finance, Government, Telecommunication, along with horizontal growth in the area of Globalization
• Ismael put out a call to spread the word. Intalio finally has a marketing staff which is actively collecting use cases and success stories [to let us know about your use case you can contact me - Jonathan Crow].

If you saw the presentation I would love to hear what you got out of it. If you have any notes on any of the other sessions feel free to send them to me crow [at] intalio [dot] com and I will include them in future posts.

Other articles in this series:

1. IUC 2008 Sessions: Janelle Hill - Linking Bussiness and IT
2. IUC 2008 Sessions: Ismael Ghalimi - Intalio State of the Union