Hyperic Wins EMA’s First Team All-Star Award

Today I learned that Hyperic won Enterprise Management Associate’s Award for Open Source Systems Management. What’s more, we discovered that we won the top slot, what EMA calls the ‘First Team All-Star’ position. The idea here is that all teams have a starting lineup, or ‘First Team’ and then a series of reserves, which [...]

[ More ] January 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

A Tale of Two Deals

What an incredible start to an otherwise unremarkable, mid-January day!
First, the huge news about MySQL being acquired by Sun Microsystems… then the news about BEA being acquired by Oracle. The first deal is significant given the ‘imminent’ IPO that was expected by MySQL later this year. The second is significant if only because of the [...]

[ More ] January 16th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Virtual Strategy Magazine Podcast on Hyperic and Mosso

Brian Ducharme from Virtual Strategy Magazine has posted a podcast featuring Jonathan Bryce of Mosso and Javier Soltero of Hyperic. You can find a summary of the podcast as well as an applet for playing it at virtual-strategy.com. Or you can use our player below to listen (or download). The podcast is licensed under a [...]

 
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[ More ] December 21st, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Community, IT Industry |

Parallel Feedback Loops: Integrating Your Community

The term innovation opportunity has been discussed by Matthew Aslett, who described it as “the potential to lower development costs for business users, while at the same time raising their potential to focus on innovative development.” This falls in line with the view that an open model is more efficient, but how [...]

[ More ] December 18th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Community, IT Industry |

More Proof That People Don’t Understand OSS Licensing

It is incredible to me that despite all the publicity and sexiness of open source, the majority of people still dont understand how open source licenses work. Despite the good work of most folks in attempting to explain the key differences between Apache/BSD-style licenses, GPL licenses, and others, I get the impression that a lot [...]

[ More ] November 28th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

“Gatekeepers of the Datacenter” vs Freedom of Choice in IT

I’ve written in the past about how enterprise management vendors can act as “Gatekeepers of the Datacenter” by virtue of what technologies they do or don’t support as part of their management solutions. This rather lame dynamic is a big part of the reason why a lot of otherwise great technologies dont make it all [...]

[ More ] November 19th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Keeping an Eye on Leopard

It has been a couple of years since the Hyperic development team decided to adopt Macs and OS X as our standard development environment, probably around the time when my Toshiba Windows XP laptop was threatening to spiral itself into oblivion for the second time in as many years. Eventually, I paid a [...]

[ More ] November 9th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

Java Devs Slam Apple’s Big Spotted Cat (a leopard?)

It was with much interest that I read a post on javalobby.org yesterday all about Leopard and its lack of a Java 6 package as well as a buggy Java 5. Hyperic being a software house that does much of its engineering in Java, as well as ardent fans of OS X, this was of [...]

[ More ] November 1st, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

Saving Money a By-Product of Saving Time with Data Center Automation (DCA)

When I first with Javier, Hyperic CEO, there were two things that struck me. One, Javier’s complete enthusiasm for the Hyperic HQ software and the team he was building, customers included. And two, he was right – Hyperic HQ actually provided real value to its users and customers through automating really tough processes and providing [...]

[ More ] October 26th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

Hyperic HQ and Gutsy Gibbon

It’s become quite a tradition these last couple of years – whenever we are about to “spring forward” or “fall behind” it can only mean one thing: it’s time for another Ubuntu release. Indeed, Ubuntu 7.10, aka “gutsy gibbon” was released last Friday, October 19. Good thing Hyperic HQ is pretty flexible about these things [...]

[ More ] October 24th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |