Hyperic is where the action is

July 24th, 2007 javier

This has been quite possibly one of the most exciting days to work at Hyperic. And by that, I mean 609 Mission Street, on the corner of 2nd Street in San Francisco, not necessarily the company. Its such a surreal day, I just have to share.

The day starts off with an apparent dead guy on a gurney in the street for 2 hours, being casually watched by a security guard with passersby actually taking phone camera photos like tourists.

Then there’s a Fruit of the Loom commercial being filmed on our corner, which, let’s face it, doesn’t exactly happen every day to you does it? Freaky fruit trying to pimp undergarments right where you work?

Then the power goes out. A manhole cover, reportedly on our corner exploded (although amazingly we didn’t hear the actual explosion) and took out power for most of downtown… although not in our office, which is good, because there is more action to come!

Now there is a RIOT two blocks away at a colo that houses MANY high profile web sites such as Craigslist, Six Apart’s Typepad and Live Journal blog sites, and Technorati… and Hyperic!

Fortunately, our site was spared. The reason for the outage and the riot? Not workers with free time due to a power outtage… According to my favorite newsource, Valleywag, a source close to the company says:

Someone came in shitfaced drunk, got angry, went berserk, and fucked up a lot of stuff. There’s an outage on 40 or so racks at minimum.

Typical, just when you think you’ve thought of everything for your (systems management) strategy, a drunk guy comes by and screws it all up.

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