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A new Intellipool Network Monitor update has been released today.
The update includes a new directory property monitor.

It has been close to a week since the website upgrade. After a fairly rocky start, caused by some voodoo JBoss configuration, the site seems to have settled down nicely.
In many ways I have been reminded of the old DOS days of constant memory configuration problems. Our server has a reasonable lump of memory, around [...]

There’s a buzz going around at the moment in the open source systems management space. A new consortium, aimed at evangelising the best tools and companies, has been formed. The Open Management Consortium is a loose grouping of projects, organisations and individuals interested in how open source can impact systems management.
The consortium has a great [...]

The end of May brings another very welcome bank holiday. We will be closed on Monday 28th May. We will re-open on Tuesday 29th as usual.
I hope you all have a very pleasant, restful holiday.

This has made my day…we’ve been cited on a Wikipedia article. Hurrah!
I love Wikipedia and getting a link from them is quite a thrill. It won’t change our lives or anything but it is nice anyway.
And for the cynics out there, no we didn’t put the citation in ourselves. We’ve got better things to do. [...]

Nice Hyperic heads up by Infoworld. $50 million worth of R&D for $1 AND three customers. Sweet!
The enterprise open source systems management space sure is hotting up…

Another commercial open source systems management software product has recently appeared on our radar. Hyperic, founded in 2004, is going after the enterprise market.
The following quote is from the Hyperic blog:
Enterprise customers are open to participating in communities and are eager to reap the benefits…. but they don’t care about having access to the source [...]

Thanks Chris for tagging me.
When you were a kid what did you want to be when you grew up?
The first time I can ever remember thinking about work was when my Father asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up. Naturally, as a five year old, I was very impressed with being [...]

To celebrate the launch of the OPENXTRA greatly improved online shop, we are giving 10% off everything all week! You don’t need complicated codes or coupons, you just make your purchase online and the 10% will be automatically deducted. The offer ends Sunday 27th May 2007 and can’t be combined with any other offer or [...]