Most of the Pentaho engines, including the engines mentioned earlier, were created as community projects and later adopted by Pentaho. The PDI engine is not an exception; Pentaho Data Integration is the new denomination for the business intelligence tool born as Kettle.
The name Kettle didn't come from the recursive acronym Kettle Extraction, Transportation, Transformation, and Loading Environment it has now. It came from KDE Extraction, Transportation, Transformation and Loading Environment, since the tool was planned to be written on top of KDE, a Linux desktop environment.
In April 2006, the Kettle project was acquired by the Pentaho Corporation, and Matt Casters, the Kettle founder, also joined the ...
