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		<title>BMC Moves To The Front Of The Cloud Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Urquhart calls Network Automation the final frontier of &#8220;Cloud Computing&#8221;, and I totally agree.  I have been following the cloud for some time now, and I noticed there is a big opportunity for some vendor to swoop in and solve this &#8220;Unified Computing&#8221; (i.e., cloud network) automation problem.  Configuration and provisioning are at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT Skeptic Calls Out BMC!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crap 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&#8217;s Crap Factoid Warning Service. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Be on EXTREME danger alert for CF &#8220;CMDB savings of more than $1 million per year&#8221;. BMC and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boxers or Briefs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 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&#8217; tweet, Heath Newburn from IBM Tivoli posted a quick tweet response. I&#8217;ll have to admit sometimes we &#8220;enterprise&#8221; boys get a little snooty about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Monitoring and The Art of War</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/opensource/the-art-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get this question a lot when I visit a Tivoli customer&#8230; 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&#8217;t remember the name. Then I rattle off a few of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s Whurley</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/bmc/wheres-whurley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 06:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bmc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been almost a year since we have been able to catch up with old Mary McFly&#8230; 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 German [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mighty Two &#8211; Zenoss</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/groundwork/the-mighty-two-zenoss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then their were two&#8230; 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 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Hinkle on Open Source Systems Management</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/opensource/mark-hinkle-on-open-source-systems-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark 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 &#8220;Little 4&#8243; and he also does a good job summarizing some of the recent Gartner analalysis on Microsoft and open source. The Little &#8220;3&#8243; of Open Source [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where did all those nice developers from BMC Patrol go?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/bmc/where-did-all-those-nice-developers-from-bmc-patrol-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bmc]]></category>
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		<title>A Distributed Control Dispatching Framework (CTL) from ControlTier</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/a-distributed-control-dispatching-framework-ctl-from-controltier/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/a-distributed-control-dispatching-framework-ctl-from-controltier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I 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 that the &#8220;Big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blink! BMC Software To Acquire BladeLogic For $800 Million</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/blink-bmc-software-to-acquire-bladelogic-for-800-million/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/blink-bmc-software-to-acquire-bladelogic-for-800-million/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BMC 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 don&#8217;t. [...]]]></description>
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