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BarcampESM Photos

Monday, January 21st, 2008

The mouth of Open Source, Tarus Balog (OpenNMS) hugging the voice of IBM monitoring, Heath Newburn (IBM World Wide Product Manager of ITM).
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Infrastructure 2.0

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Last Sunday, the day after BarCampNashville, I had lunch with Luke Kanies, the owner of Reductive Labs and the author of Puppet. It became a working lunch due to all my questions about his product. I first met Luke at OSCON 2007 during his Puppet session. I hadn’t planned to attend the Puppet session because […]

Six Pixels of Separation

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Last week at BarCampNashville, I was fortunate to meet Mitch Joel, who gave a great presentation. Mitch is really tuned in to marketing and social networking. One of the more memorable points of his presentation was that everything should be a Wiki (I agree). Anyway, at the evening dinner I had the […]

BarcampNashville

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Look who I met

Luke Kanies, founder of Reductive Labs and the open source prudct Puppet (left).
William Hurley (whurley) the Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software.

I had a fun day hanging out with Luke and Whurley. Luke is a Nashville local, and he introduced me to a lot of people, and Whurley […]

RedMonkTV » All acout barcampESM - the barcamp for the IT management community

Friday, August 17th, 2007

RedMonkTV » All acout barcampESM - the barcamp for the IT management community

It ain’t Jim Kim’al, but it sounds great to me.

My Views on OSS ESM (Part 3)

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Coincidentally, I had a conversation yesterday with two of the ten largest banks in the world. Both told me that 2008 looks to be a possible greenfield for some of their ESM initiatives, or, in other words, a do-over. Before I could even ask, they started talking about open source. One of […]

Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained, Nothing Gained, …

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

I might make an idiot of myself and have only one person in the audience when I present talk “What Does Bob Want?” this Saturday at Café Coco at BarcampNashville. Nothing ventured nothing gained, nothing gained… as I say.
 
“What Does Bob Want?” is a very funny story of the trials and tribulations of […]