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Thursday, March 20th, 2008I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST…
Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)
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 […]
HP FOSSology - Is the Fox Watching the Hen House?
Monday, January 28th, 2008This morning I was reading Matt Asay’s article about HP’s recent FOSSology announcement. Being a Tivoli guy, I am always suspicious of what the other guys are up to. So, after reading Matt’s article, I did what I always do at 2 am when I can’t sleep - I dug a little deeper. […]
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
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Gartner Report Agent Vs. Agentless Monitoring
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007I was going to hammer them but it’s really not a bad article. Very high level and probably not technically worth the money HP paid for it. However I am sure they didn’t pay for its technical merit.
How to Choose Agent-Based and Agentless Monitoring Solutions
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HP Announces Automated Operations 1.0
Monday, November 26th, 2007The company introduced HP Automated Operations 1.0, an integrated set of products that automates IT operations across all technology and organizational domains. This eliminates labor-intensive, ad hoc and error-prone manual processes and, in turn, helps IT organizations dramatically lower the day-to-day cost of operations.
HP Announces New Software and Services to Fully Automate the Management of […]
Virtual Iron, IBM, HP package Virtualization
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Virtual Iron, IBM, HP package virtualization on blades for SMBs
Senior Project Chooses OpenNMS
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Tivoli, HP, OpenNMS
Last week I did a podcast with a DePaul University senior majoring in computer science, Matthew Lechleider. Matthew told me that while building a fictitious company for the project they had to pick a real network management product to manage the fictitious network. After looking at Tivoli and HP they decided to […]
Let’s Party 2008 - Utility Cloud Computing
Monday, November 19th, 2007So if 2008 is the year of the utility cloud space computing then why don’t we play the “Gartner Predictions†game on 2008 possible cloud mergers? They never get their predictions right so why can’t we play? The assumption is that a “Tipping Point†has occurred with IBM’s announcement to compete with Amazon’s S3/EC2. […]
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 […]
Whurley v. HP
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Smack down Texas style. Swimming pools and movie stars. Texas tea. I can’t wait to see what HP has to say. You get ‘em, Whurley.
HP, You’re On Notice
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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.
Do you know about MRO?
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007You probably should.It has over 10,000 customers, over 300k users, and have products in over 120 countries. And it is owned by IBM, which has gotten back in the game of service request management with the MRO technology. If all that doesn’t get you excited, maybe this will: how about IBM mixing MRO’s world […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
