I was interested to read Open Source: What Makes for Success? by Gordon Haff. Alex Fletcher has written an interesting follow up.
Gordon Haff points out that one property of a successful open source company is to pick a very difficult problem that doesn’t touch upon too many parts of an organisation. A so called low [...]

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One of the odd things about the three new wave players is that, of the three, only one (Hyperic) supports Windows natively.
The lack of native Windows support in the other two (Zenoss/Groundwork) seems like quite an oversight. It will be interesting to see whether the lack of native Windows support hinders their adoption. I’d be [...]

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A bunch of venture funded network management start-ups are storming the enterprise space with pocketsful of venture capital money.
The new wave comprise: Hyperic, Zenoss and Groundwork.
What ties them all together? All of the tools are open source, but that isn’t new in network management. Projects like Nagios, OpenNMS as well as a raft of others [...]

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Just a quick heads up to a video produced by GeekVideo featuring an introduction to ntop. Enjoy!
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Richard Aronsson from Intellipool has a post over on his blog concerning using Intellipool to monitor Vista based machines.
Unlike on versions of Windows prior to Vista, the remote registry service is set to manual start-up on Vista. I guess that has been a casualty of the new security sensitivity over at Microsoft. In the past, [...]

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The more observant among you may have noticed some changes on this ‘ere blog. The blog was a wee bit anonymous so I’ve added an About link at the top of each page. I’ve also added a link through to the products section too. Just so new visitors landing on the blog get an idea [...]

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You won’t have noticed, but we did an update last night. We are pleased to announce that we have now implemented 3-D Secure on our online payment system. Maestro (used to be Switch) insist that merchants implement 3-D Secure by the end of June.
We strongly support any moves to make online trade more secure for [...]

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A lot of the skills that an electrician applies every day are directly applicable to network cable installation. But there are differences, and that’s what I will be covering in this article.
Network Cable is Delicate
Network cabling is lighter gauge. Any kind of rough handling has the potential to damage the cable before you’ve even installed [...]

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If your queries to us are anything to go by, yes they do. We have noticed a trend with more and more electricians ringing up enquiring about cable testing for networks. So, electricians are being contracted to install network cabling.
There has been much talk over the last few years about convergence. Well, it is real. [...]

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When you buy from us we send a feedback form. You also receive a nice new OPENXTRA pen to fill the form in with too.
Many of you have been kind enough to fill in the forms. Thank-you! We take your feedback very seriously.
One customer asked us to include batteries with the NT700 and [...]

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