Be Afraid
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.