Almost as a doodle I thought I’d create a graph depicting the dependencies between a selection of open source network management projects.
Once I’d done it, it occurred to me how much just about everything depends on just a couple of projects or project variants of, RRDTool & Net-SNMP.
The main conclusion I draw from the [...]
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Whilst developing PowerTime (not there yet!), I’ve kept in mind the requirement that I need to ensure that the software can be built using only freely available tools.
Of course we will eventually provide an installer, but I like the idea that people can build the software on their own machine if they want to.
One way [...]
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John Willis over at IT Management and Cloud Blog posted an interesting post I’d like to reply to.
The key question is will “Enterprise” customers make an investment in companies like OpenNMS and Nagios with out the warm and fuzzy that “Software Companies” provide.
That’s certainly an interesting perspective John…
It isn’t that Nagios/OpenNMS aren’t hitting enterprise customers. [...]
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I read Bryce Harrington’s The paradox of FOSS projects supporting Windows with some interest. If you’re a Linux enthusiast it should scare you.
Bryce makes the very good point that the ratio between contributors and users on Linux is substantially higher than for Windows users.
The contributor ratio is crucial to the success of an open source [...]
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The folks over at TweetVOLUME have produced a tool for counting the mentions of words or phrases on the Twitter micro-blogging platform.
I thought that it would be an interesting, though not especially significant, metric for comparing open source projects.
The graph above shows the number of twits in which Zenoss, Nagios, Hyperic, OpenNMS or MRTG were [...]
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How can a network & systems management Value Added Reseller (VAR) benefit from offering open source solutions and what are the potential problems?
Any VAR not offering genuine added value is going to be left out in the cold. A “SKU” VAR, a company that expects to take orders with the minimum of fuss, are [...]
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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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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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I don’t suppose many of you know my dirty little secret: I’m a failure. There I’ve said it. I founded an open source project and failed miserably. Sorry! Please wait there whilst I go outside to self-flagellate…that’s better the open source gods have been salved.
Back in 2005 I knew there was a tool missing from [...]
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