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Tableau did very well and was acquired by Salesforce. Looker went to Google, Periscope went to Sisense, and there are still dozens of new upstarts.

I don't see how a free open-source visualization library is going to harm these companies, if anything it should help new startups with their own products.

But isn't Tableau owned by Salesforce now? That evens the playing field some.

Also, this is a free and now open source tool from Microsoft Research that is independent of PowerBI.

Also it's open source, which Tableau is not.

Tableau's licensing model/architecture is fairly draconian. You can't even test it out for free without giving them public access to all the data you use to test, and you can't embed it in a web app without having a dedicated Tableau server process backing it. It's possible these constraints make sense for enormous enterprise customers, but they make it impractical for small companies.

They have a 30 day eval that’s pretty decent for testing.

Are you finding a way to complain about an open source tool? Really?