By Bill Karpovich on Feb 28, 2008 in Business, Open Source, Random Thoughts | 1 Comment
For the past three years, an open source consulting firm appropriately named the Olliance Group has put on an event called the “Open Source Think Tank” .
Mark Hinkle and I have attended for the last two. The location is a well-regarded resort in Napa Valley called the Silverado. While a less posh setting [...]
By Mark Hinkle on Feb 27, 2008 in News Items, Tips, Zen of Open Source | 7 Comments
We ran a survey last month among those people who have downloaded Zenoss but haven’t been successful. We see there are two themes: Installation and Documentation. We know that installing Zenoss on some platforms is less than painless. We have a plan for this and are working on improving our support for additional operating systems [...]
By Mark Hinkle on Feb 26, 2008 in News Items | 4 Comments
Zenoss is based in Annapolis, MD and under a new state tax we are facing a new sales tax for computer-based services. Let me tell you it stinks.
Here’s a story from the Baltimore Sun with all the details. Here’s a blog post with a segment on WJZ a local television station.
If you are a Maryland [...]
By Mark Hinkle on Feb 25, 2008 in News Items | 0 Comments
I have been contemplating whether the Zenoss community would be interested in a Zenoss microblogging feed. I have considered starting one but I would like to gauge interest if you are a microblogger or would be interested in seeing a Zenoss microblog let me know by posting a comment. I would be interested to follow [...]
By Mark Hinkle on Feb 19, 2008 in News Items | 1 Comment
In the first year that Zenoss released a software appliance version of its network monitoring and systems management software, over a quarter of a million users sampled it. Join us for this webinar to hear Zenoss CEO Bill Karpovich explain how using rPath technology enabled Zenoss to:
Allow customers to quickly and easily deploy a network [...]