Optaros Joins Pentaho Partner Program

Open Source Services Pioneer Partners with World's Most Popular Open Source BI Suite

Orlando, FL - October 11, 2006 - Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced that Optaros, a proven consulting and systems integration company with deep expertise in open source software, has joined the Pentaho Partner Program.

An active and contributing participant in the global open source community, Optaros helps organizations assemble and deploy next generation internet applications. Optaros' unique application assembly approach goes beyond the traditional "build versus buy" decision to maximize flexibility, cost efficiency, and speed of delivery. This innovative approach has delivered success for Optaros' clients around the globe including Swisscom Mobile, Movielink, and Voila IP.

Demand for Pentaho's best-in-class open source BI capabilities continues to grow. Pentaho's open source BI projects are now averaging 100,000 downloads a month, with well over 1 million lifetime downloads. Pentaho was recently named the "Project Of The Month" on SourceForge.net, selected out of more than 100,000 open source projects for its leadership, innovation, and community activity.

"Business intelligence represents a huge market opportunity," said Brian Otis, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Optaros. "Every day, more and more organizations are recognizing the value of open source BI, and we look forward to providing world-class BI implementations using Pentaho."

"Through our partnership with Optaros, we've expanded our global implementation capabilities," said Dave Henry, Vice President of Business Development for Pentaho. "Optaros' experience in open source and their innovative approach to application assembly will accelerate BI adoption and provide great value to our customers."

For more information on Pentaho, see www.pentaho.com.

About Pentaho

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans, Pentaho's mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by an open source business model. Pentaho is the primary sponsor and owner of popular open source projects including Mondrian, JFreeReport, Kettle, and Weka, Pentaho's technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting.

About Optaros

Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm that helps enterprises solve IT business problems by providing services and solutions that maximize the benefits of open source software. Bringing together experts in creating enterprise IT solutions and experts in the power of open source, Optaros plans and builds business systems that give you better value today and increased control in the future. Optaros was recently named as one of the ten open source companies to watch by Network World Magazine. For more about Optaros, go to www.optaros.com.