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« Previous EntriesWill OpenNMS v Netcool be the Getteysburg of IT Management
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008During a recent IT Management podcast, Tarus Balog of OpenNMS was making some bold statements about OpenNMS against the IBM Netcool network management products (formally Micromuse’s Precision). Tarus claimed that in the Telco industry OpenNMS is having some significant success with recent clients like Telecom Italia and Swisscom. I tried to cut Tarus off […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…
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/
Are interoperability and competition mutually exclusive?
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Don’t answer yet…Â Here are some links to ponder over.
Red Hat, Dell unveil JBoss OEM deal, IBM enlists Novell’s help
One year after Red Hat acquired JBoss, the battle is finally beginning to heat up in the open source middleware space.
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IBM chides Microsoft over SOA
Microsoft wants OOXML to be accepted as an ISO […]
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 […]
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). […]
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
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