PowerTime is now available on Google Code. You can even browse the code without having to download anything.
The only problem I ran into was the size of the ECAD data set exceeded the quota given to new projects. I’ve now split the ECAD data set so that it is available for download but isn’t versioned [...]
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Whilst I’m busy trying to upload PowerTime into Google Code the hairy issue of which software licence to use cropped up.
Open source licences scare the living daylights out of me especially the GNU ones.
I like copyleft licences because whatever rights I grant to the user have to be provided by anybody else further down the [...]
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Roberto Galoppini posted an interview with Mark Hinkle, the community VP over at Zenoss. Interesting…
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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, 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 to make self [...]
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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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