We are positively stoked to be going to this weekend’s Lug Radio Live in San Francisco! Lug Radio Live (LRL) will be held on April 12 and 13 at the Metreon on 4th and Howard, which you’ll note is approximately 2 blocks from Hyperic headquarters. LRL features a who’s who of prominent Open Source luminaries, [...]

Jon Travis, Principal Engineer at Hyperic and the guru behind HQU, did a HyperCAST yesterday on our newly released HQU UI plugin framework. To read more about HQU, see hquplugins.org – basically, HQU lets you build custom UI views, integrate with web services, interact directly with the HQ engine, and script out automated tasks. The [...]

InfoWorld has published extensive interviews with a stable of Open Source thought leaders on the eve of the Open Source Business Conference. Dubbed The Open Source Roundtable, it delivers a series of interviews with 11 individuals on the vanguard of Open Source, including, I was pleased to learn, Javier Soltero. For the sake of completeness, [...]

In addition to our post yesterday on the subject of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and whether they represent us, I was encouraged to see a few others pop up with a similar line of thinking. Mark Hinkle actually delved into the OSI by-laws and reported what he found. Reuven Lerner opened the question of [...]

There has been significant conversation around the OSI of late, spurred by Bruce Perens campaign to become a board member. Having had a long history myself in Free and Open Source Software, the recent activity bears reflection and begs the question “What is the purpose of the Open Source Initiative?” Let’s take a look at [...]

I was quite startled to learn yesterday that next week is OSBC (the Open Source Business Conference). As in, 7 days from now. We’ve got a few things going on at this year’s edition. Javier will appear in the panel I’ll Show You My Forge If You Show Me Yours at 10:30am on Wednesday, March [...]

Via 451 CAOS Theory, just learned that the Software Freedom Law Center settled its GPL infringement suit with Verizon. I’ll leave the details of the case as an exercise for the reader, but it basically involves a company not adhering to the terms of the GPL. As Jay Lyman of The 451 Group notes, this [...]

Those crazy Europeans. They have now issued a statement “quietly” endorsing Open Source software for use by local governments. Simon Phipps says it’s a matter of sovereignty. Glyn Moody likes the announcement overall but questions the use of “weasel words” like interoperability. And Matthew Aslett notes that the strategy document “was actually adopted in February [...]

Jonathan Bryce, co-founder of Mosso, is gaining lots of notoriety in the media for his expertise in deploying and managing a complex production environment that includes lots of virtualization. While Jonathan & team deserve their just glory for their achievements and pure smarts on the subject – Hyperic also manages to get a mention as [...]

As I listened to today’s OpenNMS and Hyperic HyperCAST, it occurred to me that I haven’t posted a couple of previous archives. Which is a shame, because there have been some great ones. HyperCAST 8 was all about upgrading to Hyperic HQ 3.2.x. It includes some live demos of upgrades in action, and covers upgrades [...]

Tarus Balug of OpenNMS is such a shy man, often playing it close to the vest, not one to venture an opinion out in the wild… right? Er, no. At least not the Tarus Balog I know and love. His blog is usually highly entertaining (I recommend the one on the W is for Weird). [...]

It’s been an eventful day at SCALE, with lots of interesting attendees, Linux toddlers, and our first SCALE casualty (RIP Firefly helicopter!) Our beautiful booth: It flies! When Linux toddlers run wild: Oh sure, he looks cute now… If only you had seen him wrecking helicopter carnage:

I love my job. For those that don’t know me too well, I have the privilege of looking after all outbound activity here at Hyperic. In that capacity I get to interact with the community, customers, press and analysts. Sometimes all at once. Thing is, I don’t get to see them that often – its [...]

Luke Kanies, the brains behind Puppet, was kind enough to come by the Hyperic office a few days ago. A conversation ensued and was recorded. If you know Luke, then you know he’s full of ideas and well-stated opinions on the state of system administration and sysadmins. Our conversation ran the gamut from Puppet’s place [...]

Hyperic is pleased to accept the honor of having Hyperic HQ named as SourceForge.net’s project of the month for January 2008. The popular Hyperic HQ project has been hosted on Sourceforge.net since its launch just 18 months ago. With nearly 2 million registered users and more than 166,500 software projects, SourceForge.net is world’s largest Open [...]

With the new Nagios plugin to be released with Hyperic HQ 3.2, we did a HyperCAST yesterday on its feature set and how to import an existing Nagios configuration. You can view the replay by clicking on the following link. Enjoy!

The 4th beta for Hyperic HQ 3.2 has been released! We’re about to wrap up the HQ 3.2 beta process, so if you haven’t kicked the tires yet, you have a limited time to do so. Speak now or forever hold your peace. See the release notes: http://support.hyperic.com/confluence/display/DOC/HQ+3.2+Release+Notes Download here: http://www.hyperic.com/downloads/dl-hq-beta.html After downloading, share your [...]

Download Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta 3 Thousands of Hyperic community members have kicked the tires on Hyperic HQ 3.2. With Beta 3 released recently, take a test drive and experience firsthand what’s new in 3.2: Read more about HQ 3.2 betas See Charles Lee’s HyperCAST on What’s New in 3.2 Download the beta now! Not [...]

Brian Ducharme from Virtual Strategy Magazine has posted a podcast featuring Jonathan Bryce of Mosso and Javier Soltero of Hyperic. You can find a summary of the podcast as well as an applet for playing it at virtual-strategy.com. Or you can use our player below to listen (or download). The podcast is licensed under a [...]

The term innovation opportunity has been discussed by Matthew Aslett, who described it as “the potential to lower development costs for business users, while at the same time raising their potential to focus on innovative development.” This falls in line with the view that an open model is more efficient, but how exactly is it [...]

We’ve introduced something new here at Hyperic. Every member of our community forums now has a tiny icon next to their user name. For Hyperic employees, it’s the “H” logo. For everyone else, you’ll see one of 6 icons, depending on how many points you’ve accumulated. This is part of our new rewards program, where [...]