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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 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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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/
IBM 5 Billion in 5 Years
Monday, August 6th, 20075 Billion in 5 Years
It looks like this Big Four is not exactly shaking in it’s boots! Â
IBM has spent more than $US5 billion on acquisitions since 2003 to boost software sales, its fastest growing and most profitable business.
In July, IBM said sales at its software unit rose 13 per cent to $US4.8 billion for the […]
OSS by itself will never be a razor
Monday, August 6th, 2007I was reading Matt Asay’s Thinking about the iPod as a razor, not a blade this morning and it reminded me of a conversation I had about two years ago with a friend of mine.Â
When ever I get a great idea I bounce it off my four mentors (my wife, a sales guy, an eng […]
Whurley Talks at TalkBMC
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Re: Managing In The Open — TalkBMC
Whurley - The Big Four speaks
My Views on OSS ESM (Part 2)
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Are Venture Capitalists the Root of all OSS Evil?
In my last blog article I talked about analyst groups and my thoughts thereof. Venture Capitals (VC’s) are a great follow-on in a vendor to analyst group (AG) food chain. As I described in the aforementioned blog article I noted that vendors tell analyst groups what they […]
I blog therefore I am!
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Ok I’m on vacation in a hotel and my wife and kids are sound a sleep and I can’t get to sleep.  What do you do … play Sudoku … not .. Think about mans lonely existence in the universe… not…
I blog.Â
First off I am already married but thanks for the offer (inside joke). […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes
That ain’t chump change
 Qlusters Closes $10 Million in Series C Funding
With more than 100,000 downloads since its launch in January 2006. Another great case study, Qlusters’ has raised over 33 million in VC and lost a senior guy like William Hurley (a.k.a. whurley).  Where […]
My Views on OSS ESM (Part 1)
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007The Analyst Groups
My first real touch-point with an analyst group was a baptism by fire. It was in the early nineties and I was doing a lot of consulting work for a marketing support group at Candle. I was often brought in to do shotgun projects. They would hire me to do […]
Whuley on the “Little Four”
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Origins Of The “Little Four†— TalkBMC
Who woke up Big Blue and does this mean IBM likes Nagios?
Saturday, July 28th, 2007After the kids go to bed I do silly things on my computer like search different keywords on different vendors sites. Last night I found an intersting one that was posted about a week ago - Nagios. Look out gang the Big Guy finally woke up.Â
Leverage Nagios with plug-ins you write
