Comments on: Open Source and the Five Minute Fix http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/05/22/open-source-and-the-five-minute-fix/ No Node Left Behind Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:05:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Network management’s “new wave” http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/05/22/open-source-and-the-five-minute-fix/#comment-9178 Network management’s “new wave” Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:12:01 +0000 http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/05/22/open-source-and-the-five-minute-fix/#comment-9178 [...] Evangelical users, through access to the source code, can modify the system to suit themselves and others in the community. Of course, not every systems admin has the hard core software engineering skills required to modify some of the new wave products. Systems built upon Java, like Hyperic, can pose significant skills barrier making a select few in the community able to modify them in anything but a trivial way. One of the big wins for Zenoss is likely to be their adoption of Python as their implementation language. Python lowers the skills barrier and should encourage admins who would otherwise be unwilling to climb a steep Java learning curve. [...] [...] Evangelical users, through access to the source code, can modify the system to suit themselves and others in the community. Of course, not every systems admin has the hard core software engineering skills required to modify some of the new wave products. Systems built upon Java, like Hyperic, can pose significant skills barrier making a select few in the community able to modify them in anything but a trivial way. One of the big wins for Zenoss is likely to be their adoption of Python as their implementation language. Python lowers the skills barrier and should encourage admins who would otherwise be unwilling to climb a steep Java learning curve. [...]

]]> By: Steffen http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/05/22/open-source-and-the-five-minute-fix/#comment-7564 Steffen Wed, 30 May 2007 11:32:02 +0000 http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/05/22/open-source-and-the-five-minute-fix/#comment-7564 Great speed. I guess I will have to dig a bit deeper into all of this, as up to now I am still doodeling with your VM Machine version 1. Great speed.

I guess I will have to dig a bit deeper into all of this, as up to now I am still doodeling with your VM Machine version 1.

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