Network World Profiles Top Open Source Companies

Jennifer Mears, at Network World, has listed the “Open Source Companies to Watch” in terms of data center transformation. It’s an interesting list, and not just because Hyperic is listed :)

The part on Hyperic has a pretty good take on who we are:

“Why is it worth watching? Application and Web monitoring from big vendors such as CA, IBM and BMC Software can be bulky, complex and difficult to deploy. Hyperic takes a different approach to Web infrastructure management and has created a simpler tool that lets IT managers monitor commercial and open source technologies from a single portal. The company’s extensive open source experience – the founders helped develop the Apache Web server – adds to its appeal.”

I have to disagree a wee bit with the above statement – CA, IBM, and BMC are not competitors. In fact, we view our product as quite complementary to them if you already have theirs installed. Other than that, Jennifer did a great job of getting the gist of what we do. Managing your web infrastructure is what we do better than anyone in the world.

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