If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Not sure how to subscribe to a RSS feed? Read Subscribing to blogs the easy way. Thanks for visiting!Looking at the entrants for the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards 2009 I am struck by the wide range of applications, but also the quality [...]
The recent controversy over the ICINGA Nagios fork brought into focus the relative activity of the various network management projects.
One of the main complaints aimed at Nagios was the slow speed of development. The following graphs, taken from the open source directory ohloh, show the number of commiters and the number of commits over the [...]
A real world example of what Tarus Balog from OpenNMS has been banging on about recently with his critique of open core or fauxpen source.
A product manager who has an open product and a closed product plainly has a decision to make over which features go into which product. Give too much away and the [...]
The first ICINGA beta has been released with a new GUI written in PHP 5 utilising the Agavi MVC framework. A project roadmap is available so you can see where the project is headed.
Ethan Galstad, the Nagios founder, has responded to recent criticisms of Nagios and to the recent ICINGA fork. It does seem a little ironic that, although the ICINGA founders claim one of the drivers behind the fork was a lack of communication, Ethan Galstad claims they didn’t communicate their disatisfaction to him.
Tarus Balog over at OpenNMS makes some very good points about trademarks and open source software. Whilst I do completely agree with him over trademark use in open source, having a trademark does introduce a legal duty to defend the mark which may not sit too well with the community.
Keir Thomas wrote a Ubuntu Pocket [...]
Matt Asay over at The Open Road commented recently that forks are a sign of strength in open source. I’m sure he’s right, but they are not necessarily a sign of strength for the project being forked. The one positive thing is that it makes the community sit up and review the root cause of [...]
Nagios is probably the best known open source network management tool. Ethan Galstad created NetSaint, the tool that eventually became Nagios, many years ago at the very dawn of using open source tools in network management.
Things are not going well. A number of people from the Nagios community, including a couple from the Nagios Community [...]
Congrats to Hyperic for the purchase by SpringSource. If you’d bet me which of the new wave were going to be bought first I would have bet on Hyperic every time.
What is most gratifying about the purchase is that it is an open source company doing the buying. Whilst I think it unlikely, one of [...]
… 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 [...]
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