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… at least the public release anyway. I expect if you work somewhere interesting, then it may be worthwhile contacting them in the meantime.
RiverMuse are aiming their offerings solidly at Tivoli, Micromuse and OpenView event correlation users. RiverMuse are going to be using an open core strategy, so far blazed by Zenoss and Hyperic, in [...]

As suggested by Jane Curry in her comment on the Open source network management buzz comparison 2008 post I’ve compared Tivoli related keywords and selected open source projects. Tivoli covers a lot of ground so comparing it on its own doesn’t really tell you very much.
Both Tivoli Monitoring and NetView have been pretty consistent throughout [...]

I’ve noticed that the old Ethereal website is back up again after being offline for well over a year. The original Ethereal crew, including Gerald Combs the founder, disappeared over to Wireshark, where they created a fork due to problems with trademarks.
Not sure what’s going on. The website hasn’t been updated since 2007. The last [...]

As it’s the start of a new year I thought it would be an ideal time to look back over the year just gone. I have used Google Trends to compare the number of searches during 2008 of various open source and proprietary network management tools.
Whilst search volume is an interesting metric for network management [...]