As a follow up to the Comparing OSS NMS meta post, the following hierarchy represents the criteria I’ve researched so far. I’ve concentrated upon the non-functional areas first because I can finalise that quite quickly. I will, as a first pass, and assuming that no major additions need adding to it, create the first comparison [...]

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One of the problems with a competitive market like the network management market is the difficulty of finding good comparative information about the various offerings.
One post I know would be useful is something that compares the various open source network management tools. People are searching for exactly that information and are hitting this website. They [...]

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The folks over at Pingdom spotted some great data centre cabling art.

Courtesy of Digital:Slurp.

Courtesy of ChrisDag. Looks like something off Star Trek

Courtesy of mbm3290.

Courtesy of Jeff Newsom. I wish our cabling looked like this.

Courtesy of tim d. Don’t like the look of the power cable though!
And of course there are some downright scary ones. [...]

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This is a reply to Tarus Balog’s Show Me Da Money (a Cautionary Tale) post.
Tarus has labelled the business model of giving away an open source core but selling proprietary extensions as shareware open source.
It’s a great term, but I don’t think it’s wholly appropriate.
If the Hyperic & Zenoss communities have a problem with the [...]

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You know when you’ve reached programmer middle age, a new operating system/IDE drops through your letter box and you don’t run off to install it.
I received Visual Studio 2008 via MSDN last week and it is still sitting on my desk unopened. Is there any hope for me?
Even Eclipse managed to release a [...]

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Elastic Path are enterprise e-commerce software developers. We use Elastic Path software as the e-commerce platform on this website. For the second release in a row they haven’t provided a mechanism to import an existing product database into their new release.
I have never come across another software company who hasn’t provided at least some form [...]

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Every bout of downtime teaches you a lesson. At least one.
The lesson…
What’s the lesson this time: anything less than full hot swap disks just isn’t good enough.
If there is anything that is going to go wrong on a server it is the disks. Our last major bout of downtime back in 2005 was [...]

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The most noteworthy thing about the Sun purchase of MySQL isn’t the purchase itself, but that it took Sun as long as it has. Sun has been around since the dawn of time in IT terms, is heavily into the enterprise market, you would have thought that a major presence in the relational database market [...]

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Apologies for the downtime over the last day or so. What started as a small hard disk failure turned into a much larger problem when the remaining disk started having intermittent errors and the server itself collapsed too. Fortunately, we are paranoid enough to take our own backups in addition to the ISP backups. Good [...]

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Isn’t it a little bit silly to post spammy comments onto this blog whilst purporting to invent a search engine that eliminates spam?

Without advertising, without a spam.
Shame allsearchs aversion to spam doesn’t extend to my website. I’m quite happy to be contacted, but comments are not the proper place. Use the Contact page.
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