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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

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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