At Zenoss, we are very fortunate to have a group of very passionate community members.  They are very vocal and they do not hesitate to praise as well as criticize us.  Our forum provides a good medium to capture general requests and rants, but we felt that we also needed to capture great anecdotes and [...]

Open source software business is all rage these days.  It started with RedHat’s acquisition of JBoss and it was followed by SourceFire’s IPO.  Then there was the XenSource acquisition by Citrix, and most recently Yahoo’s agreement to buy Zimbra.  Though on the surface, these acquisitions may seem to be limiting open source software choices to [...]

William M. Bulkeley of The Wall Street Journal wrote an article on 9/18/2007 dated paper, entitled “Free IBM Software Is Bid To Challenge Microsoft Office”, announcing the re-investment of the Big Blue into the software application business. Not just any software application business, Open Source Software Application business with its new Office Suite named Symphony. [...]

My close friends know all too well why I came to this country.  It was to chase my dream of following in the footsteps of my countrymen and founders of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun, Nesuhi Ertegun and their legendary producer Arif Mardin.  They became the guys who revolutionized the music industry in this country, and [...]

Not long ago Redmonk analyst Michael Cote coined the term “Little Four“ to describe a group of open source IT management solution vendors. This up and coming group of software companies includes Zenoss, GroundWork, Hyperic, and Qlusters (openQRM) and they are seen as alternatives to traditional vendors BMC, CA, HP and IBM (the Big Four). [...]