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Yesterday GroundWork announced the launch of MonitoringForge, probably the first vertical meta-forge of open source projects belonging to a specific software category (IT monitoring).
Talking frequently with David Dennis – Senior Director marketing at GroundWork – I happened to share with him the idea that a neutral open source monitoring à la CMSMatrix was missing. Now that GroundWork decided to start an initiative somehow going towards that direction I asked Tara Spalding, VP Marketing at GroundWork, to comment the news.
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About three months ago GroundWork announced the availability of GroundWork Monitor Starter Edition, a cheaper edition designed to establish a position at the lower end of the market and yet educating users to trade money to save time (as MÃ¥rten Mickos docet).
I asked David Dennis, senior director of product marketing at Groundwork, to keep me updated about the initiative, below some answers on the topic of GroundWork Monitor Starter Edition.
Yesterday Jaspersoft announced the availability of Jaspersoft Unlimited, a special offer at a lower price. Jaspersoft offered a similar package back in 2007, but this time training has been added to the bundle.
Brian Gentile, Jaspersoft CEO and open source core advocate, commenting the news told me:
Zenoss, the provider of open source network, systems and applications management software, with its Zenoss Masters program – aimed at recognizing the contributions of outstanding members of the Zenoss Community – this week awarded Jane Curry of Skills 1st.
While at the Open Source Think Tank I met again Mark Hinkle, VP Community at Zenoss, and I asked him to tell me more about the Zenoss community days and about Zenoss unique selling points.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks.
Few days ago I joined the open source vendor debate remarking the importance of resolving the name confusion in favor of customers, and Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile shout-out saying that open core offers best opportunity for community and commercial Success.
Lines blurring between open source and proprietary vendors apparently invigorate the debate. I want to take the chance here to classify production model in function of the nature of firm-community relationship.
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. 
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