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My Interview with ManageIT in Germany has just hit the Interwebs. If you can read German, here’s a basic summary: William Hurley (whurley) ist langjähriger technologischer Visionär und ein Befürworter von Open Source, der sich bei und im Namen von BMC Software aktiv in verschiedenen Open Source Communities engagiert. Er plädiert für ein
For the last few days Matt Asay has been discussing Oracle, Novell, and SAIC and how open source affects their strategy and operational plans. Today he’s discussing BMC Software and featuring a guest post from yours truly. Today I wanted to talk with a company that has not traditionally been known for its open source work. [...]
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 [...]
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
At conferences I’m often asked, “What is the state of open source?” I usually toss out some variation of my “Opensville” analogy. Today I thought I’d elaborate on the analogy in my first TalkBMC post. Nestled between Proprietary and Freedomberg, Opensville is a utopia. Everyone who lives in the adjacent cities spends their free time in
Yes, the rumors are true. Today I’m officially joining BMC Software as Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy. As one industry analyst said, “Nixon visits china”. HOUSTON, March 9, 2007 – BMC Software today announced that noted open source industry luminary William Hurley, also known as “whurley,” joined the company as the