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Friday, August 1st, 2008Crap Factoid Alert: CMDB savings of more than $1 million per year
This is a CATEGORY 1 Crap Factoid alert from Chokey the Chimp at the IT Skeptic’s Crap Factoid Warning Service. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Be on EXTREME danger alert for CF “CMDB savings of more than $1 million per year”. BMC […]
Boxers or Briefs?
Friday, June 27th, 2008The Evil Genius of BMC (a.k.a. Marty McFly) called out Google yesterday on Twitter regarding their basic systems management principals and bad systems management practices. Not soon after the Evil Genius’ tweet, Heath Newburn from IBM Tivoli posted a quick tweet response. I’ll have to admit sometimes we “enterprise” boys […]
Open Source Monitoring and The Art of War
Thursday, June 19th, 2008I get this question a lot when I visit a Tivoli customer…
We are thinking of looking at that Open Source vendor you are always talking about for some of our servers.
Then I ask them which one and they say jeez I can’t remember the name. Then I rattle off a few of the […]
Where’s Whurley
Friday, May 30th, 2008It’s been almost a year since we have been able to catch up with old Mary McFly…
So to my surprise here I am in Stuttgart Germany and I find out that he has traded in his skateboard for a microphone. Yep folks, I found him, he is now a lead vocalist in a […]
The Mighty Two - Zenoss
Monday, April 21st, 2008And then their were two…
With Qlusters gone and IMHO, Groundwork feeding off the bottom there are only two commercially viable open source enterprise systems management (ESM) monitoring tools left on the market. Back in Feburary I did a post about Hyperic and now I wanted to get up to speed on the other - […]
Mark Hinkle on Open Source Systems Management
Monday, April 14th, 2008Mark has written a great article for Linux Today summarizing some of the open source activities over the last few weeks. He gives a little history of the “Little 4″ and he also does a good job summarizing some of the recent Gartner analalysis on Microsoft and open source.
The Little “3″ of Open Source Systems […]
Where did all those nice developers from BMC Patrol go?
Monday, March 31st, 2008A Distributed Control Dispatching Framework (CTL) from ControlTier
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008I usually say that Tarus of OpenNMS is the hardest working man in open source, but ControlTier, with its new open source CTL offering, would make the original godfather quite proud. I first met the ControlTier guys at BarcampESM. They had come to BarcamESM to ask a very simple question, a question […]
Blink! BMC Software To Acquire BladeLogic For $800 Million
Monday, March 17th, 2008BMC to buy BladeLogic for $28 per share
Maybe I have my head too far in the clouds these days, but I am not sure that this is the kind of technology I would be focusing on if I were BMC. Maybe BMC forgot that IBM and HP both sell hardware and that they […]
Why Are You Here?
Monday, February 11th, 2008In 1987, I took my first crack at starting my own business. At the time, I lived in northern Virginia and had completed my apprenticeship with some local software startups. I was lucky enough to meet an excellent mentor named Ray Padron, who helped me create a business plan and do the VC snake dance.
IT Management Podcast #004 - Cloud-crazy!
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008IT Management Podcast #004 - Cloud-crazy!
Listen here
BarcampESM - Monitoring, the good, the bad, and the ugly
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Barcamp - BarcampESM - Update #2
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Barcamp - BarcampESM.org
This is starting to look like a world class event. For the first time in the ESM industry, we will have sessions that include some of the top open source monitoring providers with two of the leading commercial monitoring providers talking about how to improve monitoring and ESM (”Monitoring: The good, the […]
Who’s Your Daddy? IBM, Microsoft, HP
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008As one of those wacky year-in-review kind of things, I decided to waste a morning finding out who was the MacDaddy last year in patents issued. Go figure, IBM wins…
Company
Number of Patents in 2007
IBM
3192
Microsoft
1974
HP
1564
Sun
747
EMC
179
Oracle
177
SAP
155
Google
38
Yahoo
29
BMC
8
My Top 17 Favorite Posts of 2007
Saturday, December 15th, 2007The first question is, “If you are the only person who laughs at your joke is it still funny?” If your answer is “No,” then I strongly advise you not to read this blog entry.
Entrepreneuress Kim Polese
Monday, December 10th, 2007You may not know her by name, but she is the women who has been credited for coining the term Java. She was also the founder of Marimba, which did a little dance with Tivoli CM in the early part of this decade (now part of BMC). Anyway, here is an interesting interview […]
You should let me wet my beak a little.
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Don Fanucci: Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods. But you don’t even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I’ve got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little.
The other day, […]
Oh What’s Marty McFly Up To Now?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Q&A: BMC’s William Hurley talks up open source
He’s as comfortable in the boardroom as on his long green skateboard
Whurley on TV
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007http://web2point0.tv/dev/video.php?id=
The World is on Crack #4
Friday, October 19th, 2007So, I am brought in by a “Big Four” to help close a deal for an OS monitoring and services gig. Then, at the end of the meeting the customer starts to rant about how he has already spent a half-million dollars on a network management tool that doesn’t work. Furthermore, he says that […]
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