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When a “LivePerson” Goes Bad!

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Ohio LinuxFest 2007 Wrapup

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

I met some really interesting people and saw some good sessions. A few links are below. The first is an interesting podcast I did Saturday night:
Ohio LinixFest 2007 - Podcast
More info…

Zenoss had a great showing. Mark Hinkle told me that he had over 500 new sign ups for the Zenoss community. Thank […]

CMG Call for Late Breaking Papers

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I 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

Open Source IT Management Service Firms…?

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Open Source IT Management Service Firms…?
Great post by Cote

ESM and SaaS

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

An interview with Botchagalupe.
Johnmwillis: Can ESM and SaaS work?
Botchagalupe: Absolutely.
Johnmwillis: Has it ever worked before?
Botchagalupe: No. There have been a few tries over the years. The first one I can remember was a company called SecondWave. These were a bunch of Ex Tivoli execs that started a Tivoli training company.  Then they transformed into a […]

My First Open Source Conference OSCON 2007

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Not another OSCON 2007 Wrap up Blog?
This was my first open source convention and I was blown away.  I only spent two days (Wednesday and Thursday) but I had a wonderful time.  Not only were there tons of technical resources but there were mind blowing discussions about people and life going on all around.  […]

My kids don”t care about SOA

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

They really aren’t up on the latest industry trends “AJAX, OSS, Web 2.0.” They always appreciated the chotchkees I usually bring home from conferences but they never have been excited enough to ask where they came from. However, this time my new friends over at the OpSource booth at OSCON have started a trend […]

Top ten things you will never see at a Tivoli conference

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

If you have been reading my blog you know I am in Portland this week at OSCON 2007. I have some intersting cultural difference I would like to share in a classic top ten format…
Top ten things you will never see at a Tivoli conference
1) A job postings board.

2) More Macbooks than IBM […]

OSON 2007 Update (Only two fights so far)

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

 Anyone who knows me knows I have been annoying presenters at conferences for over 30 years.  Ask the folks at IBM (Heath and Chris be thankful I just started blogging).  Well I have been here for two hours and and I have already gotten into an argument with Mark Shuttleworth from Ubuntu and Tim O’Reilly.  The argument […]

Live Chat With OpSource

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Whenever I go to a website and I get one of those live chats from the vendor I think about that movie Minority Report.   Remember, when Tom Cruise is running through some tunnel and all those posters start talking to him. Well I was watching the OSCON site and they were talking about OpSource.  So I went […]