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Zenoss Webinar with rPath

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Zenoss Webinar with rPath

Twitter Fun!

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Have I told you that I love Twitter? I was reading about Mark Hinkle’s (Zenoss) traveling trouble yesterday, and I noticed this micro blog from him:
Second of three flights today…every seat is full…everybody loves sitting next to a huge dude…
It made me think of the last time I flew Southwest. […]

Why Are You Here?

Monday, February 11th, 2008

In 1987, I took my first crack at starting my own business. At the time, I lived in northern Virginia and had completed my apprenticeship with some local software startups. I was lucky enough to meet an excellent mentor named Ray Padron, who helped me create a business plan and do the VC snake dance.

BarcampESM - Monitoring, the good, the bad, and the ugly

Saturday, January 26th, 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?

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 […]

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.

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 […]

You should let me wet my beak a little.

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Don Fanucci: Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods. But you don’t even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I’ve got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little.
The other day, […]

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. […]

Zenoss Rocks

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Just demonstrating how viral marketing works. Hey Mark are you there?

Wow #1

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

I have been linked from O’Reilly Radar. Cool…
Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!)
This is a really good article about how to do a WEB 2.0 startup “The WEB 2.0 Way” (i.e., the Secret Sauce).
Here is my comment…
There are some really interesting companies working around S3/EC2. Now you add a little […]

The World is on Crack #4

Friday, October 19th, 2007

So, 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 […]

Five Guys Pizza!

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

The only guys I know in open source, and they were all in the same place at one time. What are the odds? And they happen to be a pretty good bunch to know. From left to right: Cote, Luke Kanies, Whurley, myself, and Mark Hinkle. Whurley ran a good open source […]

GroundWork Open Source Selected by …

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

GroundWork Open Source Selected by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software. There is a big difference between Group 1 Software, a small company based in Maryland, and the mother-ship Pitney Bowes in Connecticut. This is, however, a step in the right direction.

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 […]

They Might be Giants

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Did you ever see the move They Might be Giants with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward? It is a great movie.

ITNMIPEE for the SMB

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

“IBM Tivoli Network Manager Entry IP Edition 3.7” - ITNMIPEE (Now that’s an acronym).
On 9/11/2007, IBM announced an entry (SMB) version of its recently announced enterprise product IBM Tivoli Network Managed IP Edition (ITNMIPE). ITNMIPE is the enterprise replacement product, formally Precision from MicroMuse, for the old IBM Netview product. […]

Those Wacky Dudes at Zenoss

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Zenoss Beta 2_1 Compromised
Bravo!

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 […]

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