The Pentaho BI Project has been selected by SourceForge.net as the Project of The Month for October 2006! This honor follows our record downloads for the month of September totaling over 100,000 for all Pentaho projects!

Home to more than 130,000 open source projects and more than 1.4 million registered users, Sourceforge.net is the world’s largest destination for Open Source code and applications available on the Internet.  SourceForge.net attracts an active global audience, and has spawned some of the world’s best-known open source projects including the MySQL database, the JBoss application server, and the Pentaho BI project.

Sourceforge.net did a nice interview with several of the Pentaho key developers, and will be hosting the interview on their home page for the month of October! To read the interview, visit http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2006-10.php .

OpenBI, LLC, and Pentaho will deliver a web seminar, moderated by BI thought leader Colin White, introducing open source business intelligence (OSBI). The October 17th webinar will discuss the growing OSBI market, and demonstrate how OpenBI and Pentaho can help organizations realize OSBI benefits today.

For registration or more information, please visit the B-Eye-Network website at http://www.openbi.biz/events.shtml or OpenBI, LLC at www.openbi.biz.

Ancud and ProRATIO will discuss the benefits of open source BI in leveraging valuable information from popular ERP systems like SAP. During the free event, business users and the press get the opportunity to learn about practical solutions that can be delivered using Pentaho.

For information and registration for this event, please see www.proratio.de/sites/events/2006/pentaho-infotag-okt/ (Available in German only).

We are pleased to offer new Brazilian Portuguese translated documentation, contributed by our partners at Kybernetics Consulting. You can now download the Brazilian Portuguese Technical White Paper, Advanced Installation Guide and Customizing Deployments from http://www.pentaho.org/download/ .