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Must have been my busiest Twtter day ever

By John | March 20, 2009


 adamhjk @botchagalupe Right. If they dont’ get it, fighting the OSS battle *plus* the product feature battle is just bad tactics.
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jtimberman @botchagalupe @damonedwards The problems OSS cfgmgt tools solve aren’t perceived by Enterprise as problems, but business as usual.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 8:01 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message

damonedwards @botchagalupe You’ve always been a supporter of the next generation provisioning tools and we thank you for it!
Friday, 20 March 2009, 8:00 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message

jtimberman @adamhjk @botchagalupe Inadvertantly, main barrier is vendor support for finger pointing. Oh, and it has to be an “established” vendor.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:57 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message

damonedwards @botchagalupe I should separate monitoring from provisioning. ControlTier, Puppet, Chef do things big vendors don’t. Not me too plays.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:55 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message

gevaperry @botchagalupe the teachers are aware. it’s not quite simple, but I think @beaker’s is good advice
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:55 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message

abnerg @botchagalupe Sensitive guy the older one?
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:54 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
gevaperry @botchagalupe Actually my boys are the same. Younger one is extremely social and popular
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:53 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
damonedwards @botchagalupe good point about pockets within. I was generalizing overall biz. Google, Amazon = factory. Boeing, Roche = cost center.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:52 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
damonedwards @botchagalupe Clarifying: Those who see IT as cost center rather than factory floor that makes $ lag in OSS adoption. No Tiv in SaaS shops
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:45 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
adamhjk @botchagalupe Isn’t the point here that enterprise doesn’t buy open source *because* its open source. Have to dress for success, so to speak
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:44 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
bencherian @botchagalupe pickin’ fights on such a nice day? ;-)
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:43 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
damonedwards @botchagalupe point was that some biz see IT as cost center, some see as factory floor. One uses OSS first, the other lags behind.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:42 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jtimberman @botchagalupe thanks for clarifying. I was confused by your earlier statement I responded to.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:41 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jrep @botchagalupe Yeah, OSS acceptability will vary by market (not to mention, sensitivity to flame-war branding)
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:33 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
thesethings @botchagalupe Like you, I live in both worlds.My obs: Big 3 get BOUGHT/known by mgmt,but not necessarily used.OSS less visible,but there.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:26 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
damonedwards @botchagalupe I meant what makes their $$? I’ve found that if IT is support/cost center rather than actual biz, OSS adoption lags way behind
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:14 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
littleidea @botchagalupe non-stop stream of logical fallacy…
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:14 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
damonedwards @botchagalupe when you say “enterprise”, what kind of businesses? Kind of important to discussion of OSS penetration.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:01 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
Mosso @botchagalupe Send your contact info to Twitter@mosso.com and I will have an account manager call you.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 7:00 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
Mosso @botchagalupe Jump into live chat. We’ll assist you.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:54 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
littleidea @botchagalupe Some people still rock IE 6, and see no need for a replacement, doesn’t make them awesome.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:50 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
littleidea @botchagalupe My bills are paid by the enterprise. If they haven’t heard of Puppet, they aren’t paying attention. #HeadInTheSand
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:47 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
ReidCarlberg @botchagalupe SLA abd EULA word counts fascinate me. the more words, the less I believe them.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:42 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
williamlouth @botchagalupe Naturally nothing really happen as they went for the big bang approach with NimStar? In the end ops got nagios while they wait
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:42 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
rsandfo RT @botchagalupe: Cloud SLA Wordcount: GoGrid 3k, Amazon 1K, Mosso/Cloud Sites 150, 3Tera 60 (not ga)
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:41 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
zoopster @botchagalupe fingers hurt more arguing on twitter or plucking the banjo? Nice stickers on that laptop btw-war eagle
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:41 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
williamlouth @botchagalupe Hyperic was pushed upwards from those desperately looking for some kind of help. Nimsoft/Systar was pushed downwards by mgmt.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:40 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
littleidea @botchagalupe Your sample is 1K ‘tivoli ppl’, ‘tivoli ppl’ who care enough to talk to a ‘tivoli expert’ http://bit.ly/B2I6
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:36 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jlambert @botchagalupe Yea, the thing is really interesting. Seems to depend on who you talk to…
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:35 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
michaelwilde @botchagalupe good point. “your stuff sucks” only takes 15 characters. :)
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:23 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
williamlouth @botchagalupe they eventually official dropped hypeitssoftware, then paid a large sum for nimsoft/systar, then when that dragged used nagios
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:04 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
heathnewburn @botchagalupe Maybe a graphic hierarchy of who you like would help…
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:02 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
mavi_k @botchagalupe true. finger cramps!
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:01 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jrep @botchagalupe Are we gonna have to start calling you “Mr. Holland”?
Friday, 20 March 2009, 6:00 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
williamlouth @botchagalupe euhypericuser “Have we paid support? Hell no if I am going to pay for [mgmt] software then I will buy it from HP, IBM or BMC.”
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:57 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
michaelwilde @botchagalupe forcing brevity on yourself in a “Twargument” is challenging.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:57 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jrep @botchagalupe You should just have quoted John Lennon: “If you go carrying pics of Chairman Mao, they ain’t gonna to listen to you anyhow”
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:53 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jgehlbach @botchagalupe 140-character FAIL :)
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:51 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
solarce @botchagalupe some people just don’t get it.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:47 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jgehlbach @botchagalupe got your point on revenue. look at their costs, liabilities, and VC obligations, though, and it’s obviously unsustainable.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:45 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jgehlbach @botchagalupe i recognize. zenoss & hyperic: hobbled sw as a loss leader. we give away the kingdom but you can hire us to help you rule it.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:43 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
benjaminblack @botchagalupe @littleidea there is a certain irony in companies fearing open source integ./maint. cost when they use tivoli.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:42 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
littleidea @botchagalupe Could it be that you have a slight sampling bias?
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:40 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
littleidea @botchagalupe It’s about to get a lot easier… #Econocalypse
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:39 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jgehlbach @botchagalupe my only comment on cittio is “patience”.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:37 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
littleidea @botchagalupe Where are you getting numbers? If arguing marketing strategy, then I can sort of agree, but OS is all up in the enterprise.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:32 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jgehlbach @botchagalupe we’ve got way over 4 customers. what counts is the 7k non-paying customers getting real value from #openNMS
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:31 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jtimberman @botchagalupe How is OSS not a good idea for Enterprises? Not every project is good, but not all are bad either. Eg, IBM uses Linux on HMCs
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:23 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
jgehlbach @botchagalupe tell point 1 to the four enterprises covered starting at slide 21 of this deck: http://ur1.ca/2mac
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:20 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
littleidea @botchagalupe your first point is provably untrue, your second is probably provably true.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:17 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
rsandfo RT @botchagalupe: SolarWinds 2007 revenue of $61.7 million
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:17 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
boosc @botchagalupe btw, qlayer is much like the plan9 concept from original unix devel team. Cool it finally gets the much deserved attention.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 5:07 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
littleidea @botchagalupe That article is conflating issues: revenue, uptake, ease of use and support. And I believe you mean ‘beachhead’
Friday, 20 March 2009, 4:55 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
benjaminblack @botchagalupe your argument is open source _causes_ the difference and solarwinds follows up with unadulterated FUD.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 4:48 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
benjaminblack @botchagalupe you are arguing causation when there is a single correlation.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 4:45 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
benjaminblack @botchagalupe “They’ll suffer the manual cost of configuration and maintenance that open source will bring” <– FUD.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 4:45 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
benjaminblack @botchagalupe of what numbers do you speak?
Friday, 20 March 2009, 4:41 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
GeorgeReese @allspaw @Beaker @botchagalupe @GraemeThickins @craigbalding @defrag #followfriday
Friday, 20 March 2009, 4:23 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
HighTechDad @botchagalupe I may see the phrase you are talking about. Going to figure it out. Thanks.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 4:20 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
HighTechDad @botchagalupe Haha, so I wouldn’t really say a “fail”. Explaining legal docs is tricky.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 4:15 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
matthewsmall @botchagalupe That seems likely–the up front fee for resv instances is just giving you the ability to run them cheaper
Friday, 20 March 2009, 4:12 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
aneel #followfriday fluffycloudgoodness @Beaker @davegraham @botchagalupe | ibm @martinpacker @roonoid | analyst @monkchips @abnerg
Friday, 20 March 2009, 4:09 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
GeorgeReese @botchagalupe I noticed that too. Begs the question of what it means to be reserved.
Friday, 20 March 2009, 4:08 pm – Reply – View Tweet – Retweet – Direct Message
allspaw @jsoltero Wow. What year is this? @botchagalupe seems to be missing a huge segment of systems management users.
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