you seemed to think that Pentaho had the choise of releasing ClearView as open source. I'm not sure that this option was even on the table or doable in such a short period of time.
Also, I'm not sure I agree with the viewpoint that our EE customers should simply stick with JPivot indefinitely or until PAT is usable. What kind of pressure does that put on the PAT team? Or do you propose that Pentaho performs some kind of hostile take-over of the PAT code? None of those options sound too good to be honest.
No, having another nice OLAP option available to our customers is a great thing. Since nothing got closed sourced or anything "evil" like that, the open source community is not in any position to question the move at all.
Personally I think that the only conclusion you can draw from this acquisition is that it's absolutely great you can buy the rights to a 3rd party piece of software as complex as ClearView and integrate it into the Pentaho BI stack in a a few months of time. It shows the strength of both ClearView and the Pentaho BI stack in that regard.
It's this integration strength that's import for any BI platform out there, not just the integrated tools themselves.
