It is nice to see the open source network management community is still in rude health. Another network and systems monitoring tool has popped onto my horizon. Don’t know how I missed this one, it looks a goodie!
Based upon the much underrated application server platform Zope, Zenoss sure does look the part. If the website is anything to go by I can see a lot of IT and network managers finding a home for this one.
By the looks of the board they must have received a healthy dose of venture capital money. And the downloads are going thick and fast. The money tends to be a bit harder though, especially if you are relying on a support sale. That’s really hard.
The idea is far from new, hell we even tried it! Although, we did have a half arsed, underfunded English style attempt. They seem to have made a good stab at it. I wish them luck. The free open source NMS space does have some very nice projects, like Nagios and OpenNMS as well as a raft of RRDTool wrappers like Cacti and Cricket.
It does surprise me a little bit that Zenoss got VC funding. I mean, an open source company can never really build a defendable market position. All of the crown jewels are freely given away so anyone can do exactly the same thing. Still, never stopped Red Hat did it? Maybe I’m a bit behind on current VC thinking on the subject.
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