I just wanted to pipe in and let everyone know that there is exactly one winner of Best Systems Management Tool at LinuxWorld Expo. And that winner is, of course, Hyperic HQ 3.1! See the press release here. Here is photo evidence:

(from left to right: Stacey, John Mark, and Javier)
Hail to the victors! Of course, [...]

The Open Source Convention is always an entertaining mix of the old guard and those new to open source. I look forward to crashing quite a few talks this year and mixing it up a bit. If you happen to be there, feel free to drop me a line at johnmark _at_ hyperic.com.
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Hyperic will have a booth at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, from August 7 to 9. We will post the booth number when it’s finalized.

Here’s the PDF of Charles’ presentation on improving database performance for an application. In this case, he goes through our migration away from EJB2 to Hibernate and how we managed to squeeze better performance from PostgreSQL. As he mentions, database performance tuning is often about tuning the app to make more efficient use of the [...]

 Charles' CommunityOne Presentation: Download (909)

There were a couple of interviews of Hyperic executives. SYS-CON TV interviewed Doug MacEachern, the video of which is not yet available. Also, James Governor and Michael Cote of Redmonk stopped by to interview Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero. They covered a lot of ground, including what’s coming up in future releases of Hyperic HQ, the [...]

It was quite a week at JavaOne here in San Francisco, what with recent announcements on OpenJDK, and Java FX. Hyperic had a booth on the floor, a pod in the .orgZone, and a pod and talk at CommunityOne.

Charles Lee, Hyperic VP of Engineering, gave a talk on Monday at CommunityOne about how we managed [...]

Charles Lee, Hyperic’s VP of Engineering, will speak at the MySQL Conference and Expo on April 25 on the subject of Migration to Hibernate, which will recount our adventure in Hibernate. We went from EJB2 in HQ 2.7.x to Hibernate as part of the newly released HQ 3.0. We did it for several reasons, mostly [...]

Doug MacEachern, Hyperic CTO and founder of mod_perl, will speak at MuleCon 2007, in San Francisco. Doug will talk about how we took HQ and integrated it with MuleSource’s enterprise offerings. Now Mule customers can also enjoy the benefits of HQ’s systems management.

Blogging with a loaned nokia n800. LinuxWorld NY has been a hit. Our booth has been swamped, hq’s 3.0 release has been enthusiastically received, and the OSA announcement generated plenty of interest. This conference has been a win-win-win. I’ll post a news round-up later – quite a few news outlets covered our releases.

The USENIX LISA Conference convenes once again this week, this time in Washington, DC. I always enjoy this conference – those in attendance are top notch sysadmins and IT gurus. This will mark my 3rd time at LISA, and my first in a non-west coast setting (it rotates between eastern and western US venues).
Hyperic will [...]