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Saturday, September 15th, 2007“`There are going to be times,’ says Kesey, `when we can’t wait for somebody. Now you’re either on the bus or off the bus. If you’re on the bus, and you get left behind, then you’ll find it again. If you’re off the bus in the first place–then it won’t make a damn.’ And nobody […]
CMG Call for Late Breaking Papers
Thursday, September 13th, 2007I am going to try to squeeze my ESM Bake-Off into this. If anyone wants to help, please feel free to contact me. I already have a few helpers.
http://www.cmg.org/conference/cmg2007/late-breaking.html
Fake-Forkers
Monday, September 10th, 2007Beware of the Fake Forkers. The VC’s have been chomping at the bit for 10 years in anticipation of IT’s next big bubble. Well, hold on, boys. She’s a-comin’ round the mountain in 2008, a tipping point for this next bubble. You know that, as we speak, thousands of startups are creating […]
10 Reasons why you need an Open Source Strategy
Monday, September 10th, 200710 Reasons why you need an Open Source Strategy
Another good post about why OSS will win.
Things that make me go Huh #008?
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Last week, I read a lot of news articles about how IBM doesn’t track vacation time. On the surface, this story makes IBM seem very innovative. Doing the math at about $150 per hour per FTE, however, I come up with around $2 billion a year if everyone at IBM decides to take an […]
Why Proprietary Vendors Won’t Open their Code
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007I am sure that this question has many answers, but here are a few of mine.
Infrastructure 2.0
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Last 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 […]
Things that make me go Huh #006?
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Managed Objects: Individual Press Releases
This is a tough business!
Here is a company that has been around for 10 years. Its web site boasts a customer list not limited to BNP Paribas, CSC, DISA, Fidelity Investments, JPMorganChase, Progress Energy, Reuters, and TIAA-CREF. I could name about 20 more, but I have agreements with […]
Things that make me go Huh #005?
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Groundwork breaks 500th customer???
GroundWork’s Q3 Milestones Include Record Revenue, a Thriving Channel, and Groundbreaking Product Enhancements
Watch how many analyst groups regurgitate this press release. I am sure that most people know how press releases work. The firm that wants to tell a great story hires an expensive PR firm to push the […]
RedMonkTV » All acout barcampESM - the barcamp for the IT management community
Friday, August 17th, 2007RedMonkTV » 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, 2007Coincidentally, 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 […]
Talking back to Matt
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007My favorite blogger says …
Open-source companies to be acquired by proprietary vendors?
and I say …
Better Said… New!
Virtually every open-source company (that has VC) will eventually be acquired by a big proprietary software company.
Why else would the VC’s invest? World peace, world hunger? They have an exit strategy, IMHO, that can’t wait long enough for an Open […]
Calling All Tivoli’rs
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
We need Tivoli customer ESM experts at the upcoming BarCampESM in Austin. We are trying to organize an un-conference where there is a great mix of open source and proprietary vendors, integrators, architects, and customers. Â In the end our hope is that all of the presentations be given by customers from all of the silos […]
iloviT #1
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Here is a very funny blog post of an ex-Gartner getting into an argument with a current Gartner analyst (you have to read all of the comments to fully enjoy).
http://techbuddha.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/super-secure-gartner-security-blog-open-to-all/
Zabbix, it’s not just for Developers!
Friday, August 10th, 2007Patrickz::just a Developer: Zabbix - Opensource Network Monitor
This is an OSS sleeper my friends…
Doug McClure on BarCampESM
Friday, August 10th, 2007dougmcclure.net » BarCamp ESM - Get your Monitoring Mojo On!
This could be the defining event of the industry. This could change the way things are done. This is your opportunity to share your ideas. This is your opportunity to participate without committing to multi-million dollar investments in software technology that may not work.
Is Mark Shuttleworth the new Steve Jobs?
Thursday, August 9th, 2007My second and last day at LinxWorld and I didn’t get any of the things I planned to do done.  However, I did work with whurley, and Mark Hinkle to get the BarCampESM Austin thing going.  Whurley, Mark, and I also did a podcast for Cote’ about what’s happening at Linuxworld.  Should be on Cote’s […]
Cote’ on BarCampESM
Thursday, August 9th, 2007I wish I could blog as good as this guy!!!
 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/08/09/barcampesm-coming-to-austin/
What is a BarCamp
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007From whurley’s opensville…Â
BarCamps are ad-hoc collaborations born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. They are intense events—lively discussions, killer demos, and live interaction with all participants. The name BarCamp was selected as a complement to Tim O’Reilly’s FooCamp (Friends of O’Reilly). Foo. Bar. Even those of you who […]
BarCampESM
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Â
Yesterday whurley (BMC), Mark Hinkle (Zenoss), and myself were sitting around trying to solve all the worlds ESM problems. After our second round of margaritas we aksed whurley why don’t we do one. Twenty four hours latter it’s done. Whurley is amazing…
http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-whurley/whurley/summer-camp-for-systems-management-vendors
 http://barcamp.org/barcampesm
http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/08/08/systems-management-barcamp/
