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Do we need a cloud standard or just one good old IT management standard?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

It is my belief that what we today call the “cloud” will really just evolve into a complex IT infrastructure of the future, and in the end, will just be referred to as infrastructure. There is no doubt the traditional IT landscape of the last 20 years is going through a substantial transformation on […]

Say It Ain’t So

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Could this be the first open source synthetic monitoring tool.  Looks like this open source tool will be announced next week at Velocity…
Jiffy: Open Source Performance Measurement and Instrumentation

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Open Source Monitoring and The Art of War

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

I get this question a lot when I visit a Tivoli customer…
We are thinking of looking at that Open Source vendor you are always talking about for some of our servers.
Then I ask them which one and they say jeez I can’t remember the name. Then I rattle off a few of the […]

The Man Behind the Open Source Curtain

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Great post by Mark Hinkle…
Andre Boisvert: The Man Behind the Open Source Curtain

OpenNMS - Making Money the Old Fashion Way

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Taurus and gang are the little engine that could… Their business model is structured such that it is hard for them to get VC (as I hear Tarus SCREAM and fear many comments to come).  In fact I am not sure Tarus even wants VC money.  However, with or without VC, they just keep on […]

Can open source save the doctor-patient relationship?

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Can open source save the doctor-patient relationship?
Other open source medical links…
http://www.fredtrotter.com/
Getting Beyond Economics
A list of open source EMR projects

An Open Source Point of View

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

No one has ever accused Tarus of not speaking his mind. However, when it comes to Open Source he is a strong voice and he sometimes makes good points
Free Riding in Commercial Open Source Companies?

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The Mighty Two - Zenoss

Monday, April 21st, 2008

And then their were two…
With Qlusters gone and IMHO, Groundwork feeding off the bottom there are only two commercially viable open source enterprise systems management (ESM) monitoring tools left on the market. Back in Feburary I did a post about Hyperic and now I wanted to get up to speed on the other - […]

Alfesco - An Open Source Company That Makes Money

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Alfresco Closes Landmark Financial Year 2007
People still ask me how do you make money on open source.  I usually tell them to go read Wikinomics.  However, Alfesco is a great OSS success story that is just another example of how a company can be open and make money at the same time.

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Mark Hinkle on Open Source Systems Management

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Mark has written a great article for Linux Today summarizing some of the open source activities over the last few weeks.  He gives a little history of the “Little 4″ and he also does a good job summarizing some of the recent Gartner analalysis on Microsoft and open source.
The Little “3″ of Open Source Systems […]

And then there was three? !Cringe!

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Ok we now should officially remove “Little 4 V Big  4″ from the blogxicon.  Agreed?
Qlusters waves goodbye to openQRM

Enterprise Beware!

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

There was an interesting article yesterday in SearchDataCenter.com about how Motorola is using Splunk to troubleshoot IT management problems. Enterprise Search technologies are being used more and more by large customers to apply Google-like search technology to traditional data center analytics. Companies like Coke and Comcast are using Enterprise Search technologies to […]

Good Will Hunting

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

My favorite quote by Matt Damon in the movie “Good Will Hunting” is when he was talking to the arrogant Harvard student in the bar.
“You wasted $150,000 on an education you could a got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. “
 
Open source education’s time has come!

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Botchanomics and The Big Galupe

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

It’s been a while since we have been able to catch up with the international man of IT mystery, Botchagalupe. I was able to sit down with Botchagalupe to see what he has been up to lately.
Johnmwillis: Hello, Botchagalupe, its good to have you back again.
Botchagalupe: Yea, yeah, sure, sure.
Johnmwillis: The last time […]

GroundWork - Man Up

Monday, March 10th, 2008

I heard this weekend that Groundwork is afraid of me. Wasup with that? Guys, I am a 48-year-old nobody who is still looking to score my first backyard built-in swimming pool. No series “D” funding here. Come on guys, if you don’t like what I am saying, let’s debate it. […]

February 2008 - Review Post

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Doug McClure started doing an end month review and I think it is a great idea. In fact it is Doug who first tutored me on how to get my blog site started so it makes sense that I would continue to copy him. Here’s a quick look at Feb 08:

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Open Source DW Meeting in SF This Week

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Open Source DW Meeting in SF This Week
This would be very cool, but I think I am all out of Frequent Flyer miles. Darn
Agenda:
2:00 - 2:25 p.m. Mingle with your colleagues over light refreshments
2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Welcome, Chapter Intro, TDWI Goals
2:45 - 3:15 p.m. The State of Open Source BI - […]

The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives

Attack of the Alternatives, What about Commercial Open Source Software?

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Attack of the Alternatives, What about Commercial Open Source Software?
Great article by Mark Hinkle.

Pentaho raises $12M for open source “business intelligence” software

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Pentaho raises $12M for open source “business intelligence” software

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