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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007From whurley’s opensville…Â
BarCamps are ad-hoc collaborations born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. They are intense events—lively discussions, killer demos, and live interaction with all participants. The name BarCamp was selected as a complement to Tim O’Reilly’s FooCamp (Friends of O’Reilly). Foo. Bar. Even those of you who […]
BarCampESM
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Â
Yesterday whurley (BMC), Mark Hinkle (Zenoss), and myself were sitting around trying to solve all the worlds ESM problems. After our second round of margaritas we aksed whurley why don’t we do one. Twenty four hours latter it’s done. Whurley is amazing…
http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-whurley/whurley/summer-camp-for-systems-management-vendors
 http://barcamp.org/barcampesm
http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/08/08/systems-management-barcamp/
You can never go without a coat in the summer in the city of San Francisco
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Although Samuel Clemens is often attributed to the “Coldest winter I ever spent was the summer I spent in San Francisco†he never said it. In fact, if I had to guess my money is on Oscar Wilde. What Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) did say is “you can never go without a coat in […]
Off to LinuxWorld
Monday, August 6th, 2007In my continuing quest to answer the Big Four vs,. Little Four I am leaving for SFO this afternoon.  This time I am going to lay low and just listen (no fights).  If you are a VC, GroundWork, or any Analyst group I am Tall Dark and Handsome.  Anyone else, if you see a short fat […]
Groundwork adds VMware and JMX support
Monday, August 6th, 2007GroundWork Open Source Announces Enhanced Monitoring and Management for Virtualized Environments
IBM 5 Billion in 5 Years
Monday, August 6th, 20075 Billion in 5 Years
It looks like this Big Four is not exactly shaking in it’s boots! Â
IBM has spent more than $US5 billion on acquisitions since 2003 to boost software sales, its fastest growing and most profitable business.
In July, IBM said sales at its software unit rose 13 per cent to $US4.8 billion for the […]
OSS by itself will never be a razor
Monday, August 6th, 2007I was reading Matt Asay’s Thinking about the iPod as a razor, not a blade this morning and it reminded me of a conversation I had about two years ago with a friend of mine.Â
When ever I get a great idea I bounce it off my four mentors (my wife, a sales guy, an eng […]
Things that make me go Huh #003?
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Mark Hinkle from Zenoss posted a blog entry the other day about an open source software directory that keeps statistics on open source projects http://www.ohloh.net. One of the more interesting metrics that it calculates comes from a source code crawler. Â This crawler understands an array of languages and it does a calculation on how much […]
Whurley Talks at TalkBMC
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Re: Managing In The Open — TalkBMC
Whurley - The Big Four speaks
My Views on OSS ESM (Part 2)
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Are Venture Capitalists the Root of all OSS Evil?
In my last blog article I talked about analyst groups and my thoughts thereof. Venture Capitals (VC’s) are a great follow-on in a vendor to analyst group (AG) food chain. As I described in the aforementioned blog article I noted that vendors tell analyst groups what they […]
I blog therefore I am!
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Ok I’m on vacation in a hotel and my wife and kids are sound a sleep and I can’t get to sleep.  What do you do … play Sudoku … not .. Think about mans lonely existence in the universe… not…
I blog.Â
First off I am already married but thanks for the offer (inside joke). […]
Links
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes
That ain’t chump change
 Qlusters Closes $10 Million in Series C Funding
With more than 100,000 downloads since its launch in January 2006. Another great case study, Qlusters’ has raised over 33 million in VC and lost a senior guy like William Hurley (a.k.a. whurley).  Where […]
My Views on OSS ESM (Part 1)
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007The Analyst Groups
My first real touch-point with an analyst group was a baptism by fire. It was in the early nineties and I was doing a lot of consulting work for a marketing support group at Candle. I was often brought in to do shotgun projects. They would hire me to do […]
Whuley on the “Little Four”
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Origins Of The “Little Four†— TalkBMC
My First Open Source Conference OSCON 2007
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Not 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. […]
Who woke up Big Blue and does this mean IBM likes Nagios?
Saturday, July 28th, 2007After the kids go to bed I do silly things on my computer like search different keywords on different vendors sites. Last night I found an intersting one that was posted about a week ago - Nagios. Look out gang the Big Guy finally woke up.Â
Leverage Nagios with plug-ins you write
Top ten things you will never see at a Tivoli conference
Thursday, July 26th, 2007If 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 […]
These guys are growing on me …
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Why Technology Start-Ups Need Plastic Plants
Ok, I get a call from my wife the other day while I’m on the road. She says Farmer is dying. I say oh my god that’s horrible.  Then I stop and say to my self, who the heck is Farmer. My wife is still going on about what we […]
Tertium non datur
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Commercial Open Source Software » Open Source Ecosystems: some considerations
I think it is important to stress once more that there are just two ways to make money from OSS: “best code here†and “best knowledge hereâ€, tertium non datur.
