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BarcampESM - Erik Dahl on the need for an open agent

Monday, January 28th, 2008

“Adventures” in Open Source

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Tarus is shaking things up a little bit on his blog:
Show Me Da Money (a Cautionary Tale)
Why All the Hate?

NOOS22OSS Get Over It…

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Wah, Wah, Wah… IBM is not going to open source OS/2.
I’m Sorry… this is just seems silly

The IT Management Guys Podcast #002

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Episode 002 - DevCampTivoli, DMTF, Open Source Spending Bonanza, BSM, & Open Source

Analyzing Programming Languages

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Analyzing Programming Languages
I created an interesting post about some of the up-and-coming programing languages on my OSitH site. I decided not to replicate it here.

Sun Buys MySQL for Around 1 Billion

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Sun to Buy MySQL
Sun will pay approximately $800 million in cash for all of MySQL’s stock and assume about $200 million in options.

Wikia a new open source search engine

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, unveiled on Monday his new project Wikia. Wikia is an open source search engine. Everyone agrees that it’s no Google, but Wikipedia was no Britannica when it started. You have to applaud Wales for trying to disrupt the search market, and I really hope […]

Barcamp - BarcampESM - Update #2

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Barcamp - 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 […]

BarcampESM … Update …

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Less than two weeks away…

Announcement: OMC Public Beta (http://beta.openmanagement.org - a new and vastly improved website)

Monday, December 31st, 2007

In case you missed the email…

My Top 17 Favorite Posts of 2007

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

The 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.

Excellent Post on System Management, OSS, and Perfromance

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Digging Deeper: Systems Management
Need to add this guy to my rss.

What if I only had a hour to live?

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I 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 […]

Zabbix Finds a Home in USA

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Zabbix 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. […]

Drupal and Second Life Integration … Drupal is White Hot

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Drupal gets a Second Life framework
Objects in the Second Life virtual world can now be more easily integrated into Web sites running the Drupal content management system thanks to a new third-party module creator released this week.
The new framework, created by third-party Drupal developers 2bits, allows objects inside Second Life to interact with […]

Oh What’s Marty McFly Up To Now?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Q&A: BMC’s William Hurley talks up open source

He’s as comfortable in the boardroom as on his long green skateboard

Zabovo News

Monday, November 26th, 2007

We may be small but we have big ideas. Here are some of the things we are working on…

8 Day old site gets 6165 visits

Monday, November 26th, 2007

I Have Received 6165 Visits in 1 Day

The top 10 consumer open source projects

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The top 10 consumer open source projects

Help Him Help You

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Tarus Balog, “The Mouth of OpenNMS”, in his recent “Thanksgiving” post proclaimed that OpenNMS will always be free. I would say he has chosen a road less traveled.
Adventures in Open Source

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