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Friday, December 14th, 2007The “Argument†itself might be proof that Carr is right! Why? Because it’s made its way down to our rusty corner of the world, ESM. My god, don’t even bother to read the complete argument. I felt that I needed to due to Scott Bar’s recent post on the Tivoli Mailing List list. I gave […]
What if I only had a hour to live?
Thursday, December 6th, 2007I was flipping channels this evening in my hotel room and heard a very touching story about a man who wrote a short Xen like essay about all the things he would do if he had only one hour to live. By the way, he dies shortly after completing the essay. Then, I started […]
You should let me wet my beak a little.
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Don Fanucci: Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods. But you don’t even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I’ve got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little.
The other day, […]
Zabbix Finds a Home in USA
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Zabbix is an interesting open source monitoring product that is primarily developed in Latvia.
About two years ago, I had a venture called OpenESM where we were trying to partner with Zabbix, but, quite frankly, I could not understand a word they said and felt in the end that we were going to have communication/support issues. […]
Hyperic Podcast
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007An interesting podcast between, myself, Brett Gillett and Javier Soltero, the founder of Hyperic. The sound quality is horrible due to this conference recording service I used. However, IMHO content is always king. I hope you enjoy.
List to the podcast here…
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 […]
iloviT #4
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Hyperic is running a contest for the worst outage called “Nightmare on Web Streetâ€.What’s YOUR worst ops nightmare?
Leaving Toronto… See Ya Hoser’s Later
Friday, October 12th, 2007I presented my ITM 6.1 Best Practices today the SOTUG meeting in Markham, Ontario. IBM was a great host for the meeting and provided space at its development center in Markham. The meeting went very well, and I will post some interesting stories from some of the presentations and from a very interesting […]
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.
Ruby on Rails vs Java
Monday, September 10th, 2007Ruby on Rails vs Java — ad #1 of 4
This is a very funny podcast.
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.
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