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Open Source Network Management Beats IBM and HP
mjhuot writes "Last week SearchNetworking.com announced their Product Leadership Awards for 2007. It was a pleasant surprise to see an open source project, OpenNMS, win the Gold in their Network and IT Management Platforms category. OpenNMS beat out the established players of Hewlett-Packard's OpenView and IBM's Tivoli. This was based on a user survey of all IT solutions, not just open source; it demonstrates that open source software is indeed making inroads into the enterprise."
The enterprise is the main place that open-source has been popular for years. Linux, BSD, Apache anyone?? It's the desktop where "making inroads" would be relevant.
"If OpenNMS wants to play with the big boys, they will have to beef things up a bit. Once you can withstand being slashdotted, then we'll talk."
Let's see if I understood properly.
Do you really imply that in order to develop a suitable network management solution you must pay big cash to your bandwith provider or else your product must be shit?
You don't talk to managers much, I see.
You understand the difference. Most of people here understand the difference. PHBs don't understand the difference.
If you showed that to 95% of the non-technical managers who control puchase orders, they'd say, "If they can't keep their own website up, how can they be making a useful program to help you keep our network up?"
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