GroundWork Sponsors 3rd Annual Cacti Developers Meeting

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (LINUXWORLD, Booth #501)—August 4, 2008—GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com), the leader in commercial open source systems and network management software, announced today that it will be hosting the 3rd annual Cacti developers meeting at its headquarters in San Francisco during this year’s LinuxWorld show, Aug. 4-7, 2008. The Cacti team will also be available to answer any questions at GroundWork’s exhibit, booth #501.

Next week, the Cacti developers will be gathering to discuss the wants, needs and requests they have received from the open source community including, fixing bugs, assessing new feature requests and setting goals for the upcoming year. Cacti team members will also be spending time working with GroundWork developers.

“I am pleased to have a partner like GroundWork that provides the means for all the Cacti developers to collaborate in person this time of year,” said Ian Berry, lead developer and creator of Cacti.

"We're excited to be supporting the ongoing work on Cacti," states Peter Mui, Community Director of GroundWork Open Source. "Cacti is included in our Network Management Solution (NMS) option for GroundWork Monitor subscribers and it's a key component for developing elegant, templated graphs of monitoring data.”

Cacti lead developer Ian Berry also holds a seat on GroundWork Open Source's Project Lead Council, which also includes the project leads for Nagios, Ganglia and RRDtool, among others.

About Cacti

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices. http://www.cacti.net/

About GroundWork

San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (http://www.groundworkopensource.com) is the market leader in commercial open source network and systems management software, delivering enterprise-class network, system and application management solutions at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions.

GroundWork's best of breed approach gives customers the flexibility to use diverse open source and proprietary technologies together under a unified interface, allowing users to leverage the advantages of open source while simultaneously preserving existing investments in legacy management tools. GroundWork’s solutions are in use at organizations like Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, SAIC, Seton Hall University, Siemens, and World Bank.