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- zenoss, rPath join on open source systems management appliances
- Open source systems management ISV Zenoss will reveal this week a partnership with rPath that will enable it to deliver VMware appliances in the VMware marketplace. The Annapolis, Maryland software company released its first set of application, server and network management appliances – one a hardware appliance,...
- Tags: Appliance, VMware Inc., Systems Management, Zenoss, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- 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
- Is zenoss ambition justified?
- Zenoss has big ambitions for Zenoss Core 2.0, its open source management product.The freely-available new version now available in a hardware version as well, will lower the cost of management by over 80% compared to high-end tools from 'The Big Four' of HP, IBM, CA and, BMC.Sure, it costs 80%...
- Tags: support, Network Administration, management, Infrastructure, Hardware, General, Enterprise Policy, business models, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- 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
- Free zenoss does 90% of what big system monitors do
- Thats what Zenoss CEO Bill Karpovich claimed when we talked earlier today."Our focus right now is monitoring. Thats the core of IT operations management. Our goal is a complete monitoring solution – we do most of it now. We have multi-billion dollar companies using this, and commercial clients who are...
- Tags: Development, Infrastructure, Network Administration, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- XML closing the community-code gap
- It's always a challenge to narrow the time it takes for customer input to make it into a product.Zenoss does not entirely solve that problem with its latest release. But it goes a long way toward solving it with its community site and XML support.The latest version of their IT...
- Tags: Bill Karpovich, XML
- Blog posts 2006-09-15
- When will open source compete with Tivoli?
- Some of the fattest margins in the proprietary software world exist in systems management.IBM Tivoli, H-P, CA and BMC have no full open source competitors. Yes, there are many projects out there which can do part of what these suites can do, but if a medium-sized company needs a full...
- Tags: systems management, open source
- Blog posts 2006-07-10
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- openQRM goes solo after Qlusters dumps open source strategy
- openQRM is looking for a new sponsor following its separation from Qlusters earlier this month. On April 9, on the release of openQRM 3.5, Qlusters announced it decided to donate the open source data center management provisioning and monitoring project to the community on SourceForge. The project, which will continue to be...
- Tags: Strategy, openQRM, Qlusters, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBC
- Six hot open source startups and projects got notice at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Not surprisingly, many of them are in software categories deemed most vulnerable to open source disruption, including collaboration and conferencing, social publishing, sales automation, application deployment and developer tools....
- Tags: OSBC, MindTouch, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Open source business model reaching tipping point
- Over the last several years open source has grown in stature and maturity, becoming more worthy in the eyes of corporate buyers and investors. Everyone could point to Red Hat, which dominates the Linux operating system space, as the poster child for open source but few other "pure" open source...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., F/OSS, Open Source, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Can Sourceforge marketplace open the cash drawer?
- Sourceforge has always been more about traffic than money. No more. Sourceforge.Net Marketplace registers those with skills, organizes the skills into categories (even non-programming categories) and tries to make money from the deals which result. The system launches with over 600 listings...
- Tags: SourceForge, Sourceforge.Net Marketplace, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Tools & Techniques, B2B, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- The open source start-up dream still lives at Nagios
- The open source start-up dream still lives at NagiosDana, what is the best way to comercialize an open source project? I thinkthe answer will be in the size and type of project.But, in many cases, we have a non-profit group running the project, and it is commercialized by other for-profit...
- Tags: Nagios, MySQL, open source, open-source start-up
- Discussion threads 2007-11-18
- 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
- Open source battles the mooch-o-meter
- Open source battles the mooch-o-meterRhetorical Question[i]Are you going to choose from among Groundwork, Zenoss, Hyperic or any other project based on their contributions to the movement, or do their contributions to your own bottom line matter exclusively?[/i]And the only possible legally speaking answer is "your own bottom line." Which...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Open source battles the mooch-o-meter
- Groundwork is trumpeting a Gartner report which describes a growing chorus of grumbles concerning the "big four" of IT management -- HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter and BMC Patrol.But in discussing the report with ZDNet Tony Barbagallo, vice president of product management and marketing left, acknowledged that the "big bang"...
- Tags: General, Development, Strategy, management, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- The Collapse of Competition
- At the same time that free and open source software is growing, the old proprietary model is collapsing. (That's a model for a collapsing universe. Learn more here.) Alfresco CTO John Newton is frank about it. “John Powell, the former COO of Business Objects and I, were looking at opportunities...
- Tags: open source
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- The Open Source Incline
- This is the second chapter in my five-part FOSS series. The first chapter was posted yesterday, and can be found here. One concept I write about a lot here is what I call the Open Source Incline. It's roughly a right triangle, on a graph. Along one axis is the...
- Tags: open source, GPL, incline
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- New alliance seeks mass market system management
- I hate being a system manager. Yet I, like millions of other consumers and business owners, inherited the chore once we installed simple networks for kids or employees.Most of us do a very poor job. Proprietary tools are expensive and difficult to use. Open source has some interesting projects underway,...
- Tags: system management
- Blog posts 2006-05-12
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