Open Source and Open Innovation with whurley

Recently Gartner warned of the open source threat to the Big Four systems management vendors, but I don’t think the current open source solutions are quite ready to take on the big four yet. Systems management just isn’t easy. People tend to treat it like electricity and only realize its value when the power is [...]

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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

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