GroundWork 5.3 press release says that customers benefit from using the BitRock Network Service to be notified of available patches, and updates, and technical bulletins.
During the open night reception at the Open Source Think Tank Erica Brescia, BitRock CEO, told me more about her product and strategy.
Groundwork, the provider of the open source based network management software, announced the availability of GroundWork 5.3. The new platform increased scalability, the number of devices managed by a single subscription, and avoids per-node licensing.Â
Reading the press release few questions came up in my mind. I asked David Dennis, senior director of product marketing at Groundwork, more about GroundWork’s customer base, how GroundWork keeps pace with open source innovation and how GroundWork benefits from using the BitRock Network Service.
Roberto,
Very astute observation the fact that while we get classified the same we obviously have very different paths to market:
“so that firms like Zenoss and GroundWork seem to use just the same model – i.e. differentiating on features their commercial and community products. On the contrary they use different open source production models, resulting in different core capabilities and configuration of activities (see “what is an open source business model†for more references on business models’ building blocks).”
Best Regards, Mark
Hi Mark,
glad you appreciate my analysis. I think there are many other differences between GroundWork and Zenoss paths to market, though.
Talking about sponsored open source projects, I read that in three days from now you will be running your first Zenoss Community Day. Don’t forget to ping me later to tell me more about it.
Ganesh Bhat and 
Roberto Galoppini are discussing. 
Ganesh Bhat 12:48 pm on January 29, 2011 Permalink
I am Ganesh Bhat, student of S P Jain Center of Management, Singapore and currently pursuing my Global MBA in IT Management.
As part of the course I am doing a research on “State of Open Source†in Indian, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thailand, Chinese, Australian & Singaporean Government, Educational Institute and NGO’s.
It would be great if you could please share information on the usage of Open Source Software that are being used in the institutions mentioned above.
Please note that this is being done only for academic purposes.
I request you to please help/provide data on the Open Source initiatives.
Awaiting your reply.
Roberto Galoppini 11:52 pm on February 2, 2011 Permalink
About governments I’d suggest you to have a look at Center for Strategic & International studies to get a gist about what’s going on in those countries in terms of laws in favour of open source.
Ganesh Bhat 8:21 am on February 13, 2011 Permalink
Thanks.