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« Previous EntriesZabbix Finds a Home in USA
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Zabbix 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. […]
The World is on Crack #4
Friday, October 19th, 2007So, I am brought in by a “Big Four” to help close a deal for an OS monitoring and services gig. Then, at the end of the meeting the customer starts to rant about how he has already spent a half-million dollars on a network management tool that doesn’t work. Furthermore, he says that […]
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.
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 […]
CMG Call for Late Breaking Papers
Thursday, September 13th, 2007I 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
Fake-Forkers
Monday, September 10th, 2007Beware of the Fake Forkers. The VC’s have been chomping at the bit for 10 years in anticipation of IT’s next big bubble. Well, hold on, boys. She’s a-comin’ round the mountain in 2008, a tipping point for this next bubble. You know that, as we speak, thousands of startups are creating […]
10 Reasons why you need an Open Source Strategy
Monday, September 10th, 200710 Reasons why you need an Open Source Strategy
Another good post about why OSS will win.
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 […]
An Oldie but a Goodie
Friday, August 31st, 2007For some of the research that I’ve been doing about open source, I have been listening to a lot of old podcasts, including a great one from LinuxWorld 2006 Boston. Four giants from the open source world (John Roberts of SugarCRM, Marten Mickos of MySQL, Marc Fleury of JBoss (now part of Red Hat), and […]
Why Proprietary Vendors Won’t Open their Code
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007I am sure that this question has many answers, but here are a few of mine.
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 […]
New release of Zabbix … Some new features
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007SourceForge.net: ZABBIX 1.4.2 released
Search News Stats RSS Posted By: hugetoad Date: 2007-08-20 13:01 Summary: ZABBIX 1.4.2 released ZABBIX SIA is proud to announce the availability of ZABBIX 1.4.2. ZABBIX is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution
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 […]
Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained, Nothing Gained, …
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007I might make an idiot of myself and have only one person in the audience when I present talk “What Does Bob Want?†this Saturday at Café Coco at BarcampNashville. Nothing ventured nothing gained, nothing gained… as I say.
“What Does Bob Want?†is a very funny story of the trials and tribulations of […]
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…
Doug McClure on BarCampESM
Friday, August 10th, 2007dougmcclure.net » BarCamp ESM - Get your Monitoring Mojo On!
This could be the defining event of the industry. This could change the way things are done. This is your opportunity to share your ideas. This is your opportunity to participate without committing to multi-million dollar investments in software technology that may not work.
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/
