Open Source Battles The Mooch-o-meter
The Mootch-o-meter
Dana Blankenhorn has a post on ZDNet entitled “Open source battles the mooch-o-meter“. In the post he discusses a Gartner report which describes a growing chorus of grumbles concerning the “big four” of IT management — HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter and BMC Patrol.
All of which brings me back to William Hurley (right), late of Qlusters, now at BMC and blogging. His first entry seeks to find a middle ground between proprietary and free, which he calls Opensville.
As I’ve said before Opensville is a utopia. Everyone who lives in the adjacent cities spends their free time in Opensville. The parks are beautiful, the shopping is amazing, and the nights are pure Vegas. Sounds like a great place, huh? One problem: no one actually wants to live there. No one wants to pay the taxes or put in the effort it takes to keep the city running. Welcome to Opensville, population zero.
