Getting Ready for OSBC

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 [...]

[ More ] March 18th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Events, IT Industry |

The GPL as IP Protection Tool

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 [...]

[ More ] March 17th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

BMC to Buy Blade Logic for $800 Million

Among the business news for the day, the acquisition of Blade Logic by BMC definitely stands out. Because some of our customers use Blade Logic, we’ve been asked how we feel about today’s news. The answer? We feel fine :) On paper, it looks like a fine marriage, but of course the devil is in [...]

[ More ] March 17th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

The EU Endorsement of Open Source Software

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 [...]

[ More ] March 14th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, IT Industry |

New HyperCAST Archive: Nagios Integration

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!

[ More ] January 9th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Webcasts |

Calling All Beta Testers: New Beta of HQ 3.2 Available

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 [...]

[ More ] January 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Community, Hyperic HQ |

Parallel Feedback Loops: Integrating Your Community

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 [...]

[ More ] December 18th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Community, IT Industry |

More Proof That People Don’t Understand OSS Licensing

It is incredible to me that despite all the publicity and sexiness of open source, the majority of people still dont understand how open source licenses work. Despite the good work of most folks in attempting to explain the key differences between Apache/BSD-style licenses, GPL licenses, and others, I get the impression that a lot [...]

[ More ] November 28th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Saving Money a By-Product of Saving Time with Data Center Automation (DCA)

When I first with Javier, Hyperic CEO, there were two things that struck me. One, Javier’s complete enthusiasm for the Hyperic HQ software and the team he was building, customers included. And two, he was right – Hyperic HQ actually provided real value to its users and customers through automating really tough processes and providing [...]

[ More ] October 26th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

Growing a Global Community

I just got back from 3 days off. In startup-land, that is virtually akin to 3 weeks. However, upon my return I was humbled by how much got done without me. In fact, really – how much even got done without a Hyperic employee. It is no secret Hyperic’s community is growing. We now have [...]

[ More ] October 17th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

Nobel Prize Implies Open Source is a Perfect Market

I have a degree in Economics, however, I have never actually worked as an Economist. I am still interested though, and religiously read all the reports on the Fed, the business section of the newspaper, and once a year, the winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics. This year, Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger [...]

[ More ] October 16th, 2007 | 5 Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

Time To Kick Some Mule

My good buddy Dave Rosenberg has gone from blogging once a quarter to now picking fights on podcasts. He’s followed Matt Asay’s lead in every chance he can to call out my Wii Tennis skills… The most recent incident was in his second installment of Open Season. Given that I consider the Wii to be [...]

[ More ] October 5th, 2007 | 4 Comments | Posted in Events |

SaaS fueled the OSS fire

My friend Dave Rosenberg got me thinking this morning about the market dynamics of closed source, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Open Source Software (OSS). In his post on InfoWorld, Dave muses on the differences of SaaS vs OSS. He cites that there are relatively few standouts in SaaS and many shining stars in OSS. I have [...]

[ More ] September 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in IT Industry |

Infoworld Gets BOSSie on Hyperic (Or is it the Other Way Around?)

What a great name for an award… punchy, accurate acronym along with an irresistible pun! We found out this morning that Hyperic was listed among the 4 ‘finalists’ of the award. Despite Infoworld’s decision not to publish a winner until they finish deeper reviews of each product, we’re eager to see the results. In the [...]

[ More ] September 10th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

The XenSource Acquisition & the Debate on the Death of Open Source or the Victory?

Huge news today. Citrix has agreed to acquire XenSource for a whopping $500 Million dollars. In the wake of this news, I figured I’d offer some commentary and a perspective. First, as a sister investment company (XenSource and Hyperic are backed by Accel Partners and share Larry Augustin as a board member), I am excited [...]

[ More ] August 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |
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