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		<title>Lean IT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I have been asking the wrong questions. Instead of asking how will a CMDB work with commodity like infrastructures, (e.g., clouds), maybe the real question should be how do we adapt to get what we really need? Rob England (The IT Skeptic) has an interesting article on ITSM Watch called &#8220;On Demand Data and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Novell and Managed Objects: Vision, Convenience, Need or ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Novell and Managed Objects: Vision, Convenience, Need or ? Doug McClure]]></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>
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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>Burning questions: myCMDB</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest SME Author Abbas Haider Ali &#8211; Burning questions: myCMDB I wish I would have read this before we recorded the  IT Management Guys podcast #15 today.  Coté and I talked about ManagedObjects myCMDB on this soon to be posted IT Management Guys Podcast #15. &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Vendor Beware &#8230; Never Piss-off the ITIL Gods</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managed Objects has the IT Skeptic all riled up over their new MyCMDB.  I find it&#8217;s always best not to use the words ITIL and CMDB in my blog to avoid potential conflicts like this&#8230; MyCMDB? What are they smokin&#8217; over at Managed Objects?]]></description>
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		<title>CA best CMDB of 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To quote Napoleon Dynamite: You Idiot, Gosh!]]></description>
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		<title>Mission Impossible</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IBM ESM Integration Story Last night, I attended a Tivoli User Group (TUG) meeting in Atlanta. One of the presentations was on IBM&#8217;s new Tivoli Service Request Manager product. During the presentation, my mind started to wander, and I wonderedÂ  how difficult it must have been for IBM just to get this far in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Source CMDB</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great post by Cote&#8217; about CMDB. An Open Source CMDB]]></description>
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		<title>Infrastructure 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/opensource/infrastructure-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 hadnâ€™t planned to attend the Puppet session because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Views on OSS ESM (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/opensource/my-views-on-oss-esm-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 the executives told [...]]]></description>
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