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« Previous EntriesGroundwork Man Up #2
Friday, March 14th, 2008Come on guys don’t make me have to go 40rag on your ass.
See also Man Up #1
“Adventures” in Open Source
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Tarus is shaking things up a little bit on his blog:
Show Me Da Money (a Cautionary Tale)
Why All the Hate?
451 Are you a Redmonk or a Gartner?
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008A lot of people I have met over the last year keep telling me that the 451 group is one of the good guys. I have always enjoyed Matthew Aslett’s posts. I am very suspicious, however, when I notice that, for certain companies, I hear only the good and never the bad. Here […]
Groundwork the Mystery Continues
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008I noticed in one of Tarus’ latest blogs that he mentioned that Ranga Rangachari, the ex CEO of Groundwork, is no longer listed on the Groundwork management team. In fact, I looked at Groundwork’s management team page, and it looks like Dave Lilly (one of the founders) is back at the helm. I […]
GroundWork Monitor Professional 5.1 wins Gold in SearchEnterpriseLinux.com’s “Products of the Yearâ€
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008This is the same outfit that gave CA the Gold for its CMDB. Talk about a club that I wouldn’t want to be in. For more thoughts on this, see CA best CMDB of 2007
Wow #1
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I have been linked from O’Reilly Radar. Cool…
Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!)
This is a really good article about how to do a WEB 2.0 startup “The WEB 2.0 Way” (i.e., the Secret Sauce).
Here is my comment…
There are some really interesting companies working around S3/EC2. Now you add a little […]
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 […]
GroundWork Open Source Selected by …
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007GroundWork Open Source Selected by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software. There is a big difference between Group 1 Software, a small company based in Maryland, and the mother-ship Pitney Bowes in Connecticut. This is, however, a step in the right direction.
They Might be Giants
Friday, September 21st, 2007Did you ever see the move They Might be Giants with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward? It is a great movie.
ITNMIPEE for the SMB
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007“IBM Tivoli Network Manager Entry IP Edition 3.7†- ITNMIPEE (Now that’s an acronym).
On 9/11/2007, IBM announced an entry (SMB) version of its recently announced enterprise product IBM Tivoli Network Managed IP Edition (ITNMIPE). ITNMIPE is the enterprise replacement product, formally Precision from MicroMuse, for the old IBM Netview product. […]
Now you’re either on the bus or off the bus
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.
Waiters v. Cooks
Thursday, September 6th, 2007If you have ever worked for a proprietary software company, you will probably get a kick out of this story. A friend’s daughter recently took a job as a waitress. My friend was explaining how his daughter is always complaining that the cooks are prima donnas. To hear her tell it, if […]
An Oldie but a Goodie
Friday, August 31st, 2007For some of the research that I’ve been doing about open source, I have been listening to a lot of old podcasts, including a great one from LinuxWorld 2006 Boston. Four giants from the open source world (John Roberts of SugarCRM, Marten Mickos of MySQL, Marc Fleury of JBoss (now part of Red Hat), and […]
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.
My Views on OSS ESM (Part 4)
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Are salesmen the root of all evil?
Let me start with an obligatory sales joke:
A sales guy dies and he meets St. Peter at the Pearlies. St. Peter tells him about this elaborate new system they have developed in heaven in which new arrivals get to choose one of three options to spend the rest […]
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.
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