Open source management continues to thrive
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| Separately, Zenoss announced it had garnered more venture capital cash this
| month. The company reported it has secured $11 million in a Series B round of
| investment led by Grotech Capital. On top of bringing in the extra cash,
| Zenoss also announced it had some 500,000 downloads of its Core product. The
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| company also says it has increased its commercial customer base tenfold,
| giving customers looking for monitoring tools an alternative to the big four
| market leaders.
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http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2008/0204nsm1.html
Related:
Zenoss: New dog masters old monitoring tricks
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| Zenoss is distributed either in the form of Linux RPM (Red Hat Package
| Manager) packages or as a prebuilt VMware appliance. It is readily compatible
| with a wide range of popular Linux distributions as well as Apple's OS X.
| Distribution in the form of a VMware appliance makes Zenoss easy to evaluate
| and helps pave the way for shops with no Linux expertise or available
| dedicated hardware to implement it. The RPM installation is nicely scripted
| and works well enough such that an admin with very limited Linux experience
| will find it relatively painless to get up and running. Upgrades are also
| relatively easy to accomplish ??? usually only requiring the application of a
| new RPM and the execution of a data migration script.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071129/tc_infoworld/93637
[June 2007:] Zenoss Grows with Open-Source IT Management
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| Zenoss, which has seen 170,000 downloads of its free Zenoss Core
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| offering since January and claims to have the most popular IT
| management project on SourceForge, now has a full Configuration
| Management Database in its core monitoring tool, according to CEO
| Bill Karpovich, in Annapolis, Md.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2143727,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Today’s the day for open source venture funding
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| According to 451 CAOS Theory figures $80.5m worth of open source VC funding
| has been announced in the first 22 days of 2008, compared with $100.4m in the
| whole of the first quarter of 2007.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/01/22/todays-the-day-for-open-source-venture-funding/
Research: Open source M&A Comes of Age
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| Year Deal volume Significant deals
| 2007 30 Yahoo-Zimbra, Sourcefire-ClamAV, Citrix-XenSource, Red
| Hat-MetaMatrix
| 2006 22 Red Hat-JBoss, Oracle-Sleepycat
| 2005 15 Ingres carve-out, Oracle-Innobase, IBM-Gluecode
| 2004 3 Red Hat-Netscape Enterprise Business
| 2003 6 Novell-SUSE, Red Hat-Sistina
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http://linux.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/research-open-source-ma-comes-of-age/
Open source to hit $22 billion by 2010. What this means for Red Hat and Novell
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| Interestingly, this number jumps to $41 billion if you add in the $19 billion
| that enterprises will invest in internal open-source development instead of
| wasting it on proprietary software licenses, according to Morgan Stanley...
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9806036-16.html?tag=cnetfd.blogs.item
Source of the revolution
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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is e22bn,
| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105
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