The 451 Group: The ‘Big Four’ Systems Management Vendors Are Ripe for a Shake-up From Open Source Players
The 451 Group has found that the ‘Big Four’ systems management vendors (BMC, HP, IBM and CA) are ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players. In the past 18 months, open source options in the systems management space have grown to include a new set of vendors, backing open source systems management projects with commercial-grade support offerings. This combination of open source with enterprise services will have an impact on the proprietary systems management vendors.
Yet another OSS trend about to crush incumbents. I think this is a place where crappy, enterprise coding practices and obsolete processes are about to get pounded by open source. My personal pick is
Hyperic over
Zenoss, but it’s way early for that. Stay tuned…
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Extraordinary C++ - The Astoria Seminar
Must do this at least once before I die. I’m still digesting Dave Abraham’s MPL presentation from the fall! 
» Friday rants: RealPlayer is annoying
I’ve avoided RealPlayer like the plague, but regrettably forgot why until this week. I wanted to view a Webcast that was only available in RealPlayer. Firefox informs me I need a plug-in so I download it and install. Big mistake.
I can so identify with this. Note to webcast producers: Many times I thought your presentation would be interesting enough. Once I found out that RealPlayer was required, I bailed. It’ll happen next time, too.
Your pal,
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