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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Jane Curry of Skills 1st Ltd has updated her original open source network management tools white paper. Here is is…
Open Source Management Options
Everything is a Freaking DNS problem
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008I freaking love that title for a blog. Kris Buytaert asks a really good question regarding VC and the “Little 4.”
Systems management, what will happen when the VCs want their money ?
Jane Knows Network Management
Monday, September 8th, 2008Jane Curry is a excellent Tivoli instructor over in the UK and a frequent presentor at Tivoli conferences. She has done an excellent job on a white paper comparing Nagios, OpenNMS, and Zenoss for network management and the bottom line is she picks Zenoss…
OpenNMS and Zenoss are both extremely competent products covering automatic
discovery, availability […]
Will 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 […]
Open source network management comparison: Platform
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Jack knows Open Source NMS… A good break down of platform support by the leading Open Source monitoring vendors.
Open source network management comparison: Platform
OpenNMS - Making Money the Old Fashion Way
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Taurus 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 […]
An Open Source Point of View
Saturday, May 17th, 2008No 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?
The Mighty “2.5″
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Let’s say it was all the travel, maybe all the different time zones in 2 1/2 weeks. Add the “Wrath of Con” Tarus Balog with his relentless “Mouth of Open Source” might. I don’t know, I can’t think straight anymore. Therefore in my wisdom of all things known to be “Mighty” I therefore declare OpenNMS […]
Mark Hinkle on Open Source Systems Management
Monday, April 14th, 2008Mark 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 […]
Botchagalupe Finally Cashes In!
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008For many years poor old Botchagalupe has been cursed with entrepreneurial ADD. However, yesterday’s news that Sun has acquired the OpenNMS Group, has finally provided a cash-out for all the praise and sucking up that Botchagalupe has been doing for that load mouth Tarus Balog. Tarus has been paying Botchagalupe a […]
OpenNMS Going Law 2.0
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008This was probably my worst all time title for a blog entry… ah who cares…
Tarus and gang have retained Moglen Ravicher, LLC (a for-profit law firm organized by the Software Freedom Law Center and run to support their non-profit operations) to represent us with respect to issues relating to GPL license violations of OpenNMS code […]
The way it is and the way it should to be
Friday, March 21st, 2008With all this talk about clouds and provisioning, coincidently, yesterday I had a conversation with one of the leading Tivoli provisioning consultants in the world. I have a client that needs to upgrade to the latest Tivoli Provisioning Management (TPM) product and I reached out to this consultant to help me. This consultant […]
OpenNMS and the Google Summer of Code
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008OpenNMS and the Google Summer of Code
Congrats to Tarus and gang for being a participant in the Google Summer of Code. Now that you have an in over there, maybe you can convince Chris to open up some of that sweet IT management stuff they are running.
IT Management Podcast #009 - Zenoss with Mark Hinkle, OpenNMS & Cittio
Sunday, March 9th, 2008IT Management Podcast #009 - Zenoss with Mark Hinkle, OpenNMS & Cittio
IMO NMS is not Lost
Thursday, March 6th, 2008While catching up on my Google reader this morning I stuck one foot in the muck (yuk yuk). Coté sure knows how to get this internet moving. :) He sent Tarus this blog post the other day and Tarus responded with this post. Here are my thoughts…
Not exactly sure what is lost?Â
Micromuse products are going […]
These are a few of my favorite things
Thursday, January 24th, 2008I guess I am on a Tarus run here, but I can’t resist commenting about the OpenNMS Bug Fest. Maybe it’s because I have had my head buried in close source for 29 years that this sounds fascinating to me. I get the community development aspect of open source, but the idea of […]
OpenNMS Dev-Jam in Atlanta 2008
Thursday, January 10th, 2008Looks like Tarus and gang will be brining OpenNMS to Atlanta at Georgia Tech. This is my neck of the woods. I am looking forward to it.
Dev-Jam 2008 Dates and Location Set
Barcamp - BarcampESM - Update #2
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Barcamp - BarcampESM.org
This is starting to look like a world class event. For the first time in the ESM industry, we will have sessions that include some of the top open source monitoring providers with two of the leading commercial monitoring providers talking about how to improve monitoring and ESM (”Monitoring: The good, the […]
My Top 17 Favorite Posts of 2007
Saturday, December 15th, 2007The first question is, “If you are the only person who laughs at your joke is it still funny?” If your answer is “No,” then I strongly advise you not to read this blog entry.
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 […]
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