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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. Losing money... by AriesGeek · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hmmm.. We currently use Spectrum and are getting ready to make a change. I just sent this link to the boss and he came back with, "Yeah, but their website is currently down! What does that say about the company?"

    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.

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    1. Re:Losing money... by AriesGeek · · Score: 0, Troll

      Ummm.. Yeah, sure. In the real world, your website says a lot about you as a company.

      I work in healthcare. Network failures means people could possibly die. Suppose for a minute that Cisco had the same problem. Slashdot link means can't get to the website. Suppose they were slashdotted at the same time as a network failure and I couldn't get into TAC to open a case? Then what?

      So yeah. Burstable bandwidth, along with the ability to deal with problems like this as they arise and make the website usable again, means a lot.

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