Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

“GWOS” - Up!

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Ok - there are some swift folks out there following our every little move - such as asking about our new domain name of www.gwos.com and now our new company logo that features GWOS instead of the whole GroundWork Open Source in its entirety. The answer to the question about who is ...

Nagios forked by Icinga, GroundWork’s POV

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Since the recent announcement of the Icinga fork of the Nagios project, a number of customers, community members, analysts, and journalists have asked what this means for GroundWork. As most of you are probably aware, Nagios is an important component of GroundWork Monitor, and one of the many valuable pieces of ...

The Open Source Honey Blender

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Thanks to the thoughtful posts of Roberto Galoppini About the Open Source Whole Product Concept, I've just finished reading the latest, version 2 of James Dixon's The Bees and the Trees. Over a great dinner at the Water Bar with Roberto after the Open Source Think Tank last March, I remarked ...

Survey Results: Community Edition (GWMCE) Downloaders Do More with Open Source

Friday, April 10th, 2009

GroundWork conducts an ongoing community edition downloader survey that provides a better understanding of how GWMCE is used and how GWMCE can be improved. Here are some of the monitoring trends reported from our first round of results. The IT environments that GWMCE monitors are complex, heterogeneous, and require a high level ...

Building Consensus for Monitoring System Selection

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

“I want central visibility of the availability and performance of networks, servers, applications, and service levels. I’m ready to select the tool; I just need to get consensus from all of my guys that we are moving in the right direction and that they will actually use what we choose.” ...

Join the Matrix in-house exhibition 2009 in Munich, Germany March 19 - 20

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

The matrix technology AG announces the matrix in-house exhibition 2009. The event will take place in Munich, Germany from 19th to 20th March 2009 on the company’s business premises. The event offers a wide range of lectures and presentation sessions where partners and customers together with matrix specialists will show the whole ...