SplunkBase Brings IT Troubleshooting Wiki to the Masses

OSS_ilation writes "IT troubleshooting firm Splunk is using LinuxWorld Boston as a platform to formally launch Splunk Base, a global wiki that will offer IT pros a free-of-charge venue to exchange troubleshooting information, tools and fixes. Splunk is promising that the wiki is completely vendor neutral, and can be compared to Wikipedia, the online open encyclopedia that is regulated and updated by the community-at-large. Users don't even have to have a copy of Splunk Professional to use it. From the article: 'If you believe the research from firms like Framingham, Mass.-based IDC, then Splunk Base has arrived at a key moment. According to IDC, companies will spend more than $100 billion this year on managing the world's data centers. And with virtualization quickly becoming an IT buzzword in 2006, the complexity and costs could increase.'"

Comments

Sir, can I interest you in some Splunk?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not only a bad name, they are a very frequent advertiser here on Slashdot which should have been mentioned.
Have a look at their demo - I was not impressed. Plenty of tools do the same thing. Both Open Source and proprietary.
A troubleshooting Wiki would be nice, though. Give ExpertsExchange some competition when it comes to IT peer questions and answers.

Already exists

[Intron]

Its called "usenet"