GroundBreaker News, February, 2007
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Technology Insight by Craig Thomas »
Featured Customer, Shopzilla »
February's Tool Tip: Pager/SMS Integration »

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Last Month's iPod nano Winner was:

» Jay Hilliard, Disney Feature Animation

Visit us at LinuxFest Northwest, 2007 in Bellingham, WA for your chance to win a 2GB iPod nano!

Hello!

Thanks to you we closed last year with a bang - a 400% increase in subscription revenue, over 200 customers, and users in over 20 countries - and are already having an exciting start to 2007.

Earlier this month we secured $12.5 million in our third round of venture capital financing. We also announced our participation in the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). The OSA is a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving the adoption of comprehensive open source business solutions.

As always we're hard at work creating more value for you. Starting next month, we'll be launching a three-part Open Source Monitoring Best Practices Webinar series. Thomas Stocking, co-founder of GroundWork and Technical Evangelist, will share practical advice gleaned from hundreds of installations and real-life case studies from GroundWork customers. The first Webinar will take place Wednesday, March 7 at 8:30 a.m. PST (10:30 a.m. CST, 11:30 a.m. EST, 4:30 p.m. GMT). We're also offering a cool Nabaztag Wifi Smart Rabbit from ThinkGeek to the first person or persons to deliver a repeatable Ubuntu or Solaris build (or build procedure). Check out our forums for more information.

We hope to see you soon at an upcoming event.

Sincerely,

Eden Hensley,
Director of Marketing Communications and The GroundBreaker Editor

GROUNDWORK Open Source, Inc.
139 Townsend Street, Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94107-1946
www.groundworkopensource.com

Technology Insight by Craig Thomas:
GroundWork and Eclipse

These are exhilarating times for GroundWork Open Source. We are reaching more customers with better solutions, and bringing the value of open source software to mid-market systems and network management. As GroundWork makes progress along its technology roadmap, we make contributions to the community -- the community that helps us make contributions to our customers. After all, as the projects in open source get stronger, more comprehensive, and more robust, our ability to bring our disruptive software engineering economics to the mid-market is enhanced.

This month, I'd like to introduce you to another open source community that GroundWork has joined, Eclipse, and the specific project we are engaged in, Eclipse COSMOS.

Eclipse is an open-source Java application platform and an integrated development environment. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit that leads the development of Eclipse. Members are an A to Z of technology leaders, including Actuate, BEA Systems, Computer Associates, Compuware, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, SAP, Sybase, and Zend Technologies. There are a good many other companies, academic institutions, and individuals that contribute as well.

Java developers know Eclipse primarily as an extremely feature-rich open source IDE, that has hundreds of commercial and open source plug-ins. There are IDEs for C/C++, PHP, and even COBOL. There are also open source and commercial applications that are "powered by Eclipse," making use of its run-time environment and software delivery capabilities...

Read the rest of Craig's Technology Insight; visit Technology Insights on our website.

Featured Customer: Shopzilla

"GroundWork Monitor Professional provides us with the ability to see any hardware component critical to our business so we can quickly repair our IT investment —and ensures the continuous flow of consumer traffic that is the lifeblood of our company."
— Burzin Engineer, Sr. Director Infrastructure Services, Shopzilla

To keep online cash registers ringing, Shopzilla needs to keep its IT infrastructure open for business 24 hours a day. The company has invested millions of dollars in thousands of servers and networking devices spread across three data centers. Until early 2006, Shopzilla relied on Nagios® for overall monitoring, but the tool did not provide enough visibility or reporting capabilities to effectively watch over Shopzilla's IT infrastructure.

Senior director of infrastructure services, Burzin Engineer, browsed enterprise-class proprietary software and found it to be too expensive and restrictive for Shopzilla's needs. The ability to make modifications without breaking license agreements was a key requirement. GroundWork provided a flexible, cost-effective alternative which allowed them to achieve full monitoring capabilities in just three months. According to Burzin, GroundWork has greatly improved their ability to react to performance issues. And in their business, speed is the name of the game. Read more. »

February's Tool Tip: Pager/SMS Integration

February's Tool Tip comes from the GroundWork Community. GroundWork user Kyle O'Donell describes a very simple way to integrate your Telalert paging system with GroundWork Monitor to send alerts right to your phone. Read more.»

Got a tip? Post it to our community forums and if yours is chosen, we'll send you an iPod Nano.

Upcoming Events

Open Source Network Monitoring:
What You Need to Consider and How to Get Started
March 7, 2007 — Webinar
For more information, visit our website
Novell BrainShare 2007
March 18 - 23, 2007 — Salt Lake City, UT
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March Mingle
March 21, 2007 — San Diego, CA
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Open Source Network Monitoring:
How to Implement in Mixed Environments
April 4, 2007 — Webinar
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