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Open Source Network Management Beats IBM and HP

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the slow-and-steady-going-for-the-win dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Losing money... by turbidostato · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "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?

  2. Re:Losing money... by TBone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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