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Missing what open source cannot afford

FOSS needs some town hallsto get free air time on the news and to educate the users on the perils of closed source.I have to disagree ...I'm not sure how isolated you are, but my experience with open source through OpenNMS has been quite different.Sure, companies like mine that are...

Tags: open source, OpenNMS

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Eben law can have an open source business model

Anyone can have an open source business model. Even an open source lawyer. Eben Moglen, whose Software Freedom Law Center provides free legal help to open source projects, has just announced Moglen Ravicher LLC, a for-profit law firm covering the same ground. Their first...

Tags: Lawyer, OpenNMS, Ravicher, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Open source and the attention economy

Open source and the attention economyand chairs tooI would keep a safe distance!!I'm not sure this is specific to open source ...In Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos he examines this phenomenon of why bad news travels much faster than good news among other things. For example, if a Senator...

Tags: open source, attention economy, OpenNMS

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

Free Zenoss does 90ò0of what big system monitors do

Free Zenoss does 90ò0of what big system monitors doJust to be clear...Thanks, Dana, for the discussion today and the mention. Just to be clear, our position is not that we "do 90% of what the Big 4 do" but rather: (1) we provide strong coverage of what organizations are *really*...

Tags: Network administration, OPEN SOURCE, NETWORKING, Zenoss, OpenNMS

Discussion threads 2007-02-16

Additional Resources

Will European rules impact open source business models?

Will European rules impact open source business models?Download is not the issue - its the tender processIt makes no sense to have a policy that accepts software that is 100% proprietary or 100% open source and nothing in between.Any commercial open source vendor can get around the download issue by...

Tags: Roberto, Alfresco, open source, Funambol, Pentaho

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Integrating Open Source in Commercial Solutions: Does PacketTrap Have the Right Model?

The use of open source software has become increasingly popular in production environments, as well as in research and software development. One obvious attraction is the low cost of acquisition. Commercial software has a higher initial cost, though it usually has advantages such as support and training. A number of...

Tags: Software, Software Company, PacketTrap Networks, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management

White papers 2008-08-08

What if you lose your job?

What if you lose your job?The thing is, with open source, you can get a job with a different company,or do consulting, based on the same project. You will be valuable, as you know the code, and can get in and add features, hooks, etc. With a proprietary project, that...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, open source, OSS, What-If

Discussion threads 2008-01-17

Hyperic joins forces with JasperSoft to deliver reporting tool to HQ 3.1

Hyperic has joined forces with another open source software leader to deliver enterprise reporting tools to its new HQ 3.1 platform, sources say. The San Francisco company, which released its core HQ 3.1 upgrade in August, is widely expected to begin shipping an enterprise version of...

Tags: JasperSoft, Reporting Tool, Platform, Monitoring, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-09-20

Open source systems management challenging incumbents

The 451 Group has issued a research report maintaining that BMC, HP, IBM and CA are "ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players. " Open source vendors covered in the 60-page report titled "Managing in the Open: The Next Wave of Systems Management" and written by...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Is Zenoss ambition justified?

Is Zenoss ambition justified?NMS as a hardware appliance has been tried beforeIt will be interesting to see if this takes off, as having an NMS as an appliance aimed at small to medium size businesses has been tried before. Oculan (the company that started the OpenNMS project that I help...

Tags: Network administration, NETWORKING, Zenoss, Small-Company

Discussion threads 2007-06-12

How do open source enterprises handle security?

How do open source enterprises handle security?Thought-provoking point[i] But if we're depending on IBM for enterprise level capabilities, have we really gained that much in moving from Windows?[/i]IBM is also a company that is oriented around satisfying specific customers, namely the enterprises that buy IBM products. That speaks to...

Tags: EMC Corp., open source, virtualization, patch management, IBM Corp., security

Discussion threads 2005-05-12

Integrating OpenNMS with OpenManage Server Agent to Manage Dell PowerEdge Servers Running Linux

Enterprises that adopt the Red Hat Linux operating system OS and run it on Dell PowerEdge servers require a way to manage these environments. OpenNMS Open Network Management System is an open source network management platform that works well for managing Linux environments. OpenNMS can monitor the performance of nodes...

Tags: Dell PowerEdge Server, Dell Computer Corp., Network, Environment, Dell PowerEdge, Network Management, Linux, Network Administration, Networking, Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

White papers 2003-02-01