Jon Travis, Principal Engineer at Hyperic and the guru behind HQU, did a HyperCAST yesterday on our newly released HQU UI plugin framework. To read more about HQU, see hquplugins.org - basically, HQU lets you build custom UI views, integrate with web services, interact directly with the HQ engine, and script out automated tasks.
The highlight of the HyperCAST is a Jira integration piece that took about 5 minutes.
Add comment March 27th, 2008 John Mark
HQU Plugin Framework Provides Full Access To Deploy Zero-Touch, Zero-Downtime Web Infrastructure Management Automation
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – March 26, 2008
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What do Hi5, Facebook, or MySpace have to do with enterprise computing? I’ve been asking myself this question for over a year, as I have continued to hear about social networking’s imminent impact on business applications. Frankly, my answer up until recently was “not a whole lot”. It seemed all too convenient for the technology industry to try to rationalize a consumer trend (social networking) into an established space (enterprise apps) and even add it’s own “Next-Big-Thing”(tm) moniker (Enterprise 2.0).
Add comment March 24th, 2008 javier
InfoWorld has published extensive interviews with a stable of Open Source thought leaders on the eve of the Open Source Business Conference. Dubbed The Open Source Roundtable, it delivers a series of interviews with 11 individuals on the vanguard of Open Source, including, I was pleased to learn, Javier Soltero. For the sake of completeness, the others include Matt Asay of Alfresco, Dave Rosenberg of MuleSource, Chris DiBona of Google, Bruce Perens, ESR, Sam Ramji of Microsoft, Mark Spencer of Digium, Bob Sutor of IBM, Zack Urlocker of MySQL, and Andy Astor of EnterpriseDB.
Add comment March 24th, 2008 John Mark
This was an interesting article by Nick Carr that popped up in Google Reader today - it’s about the Bebo acquisition by AOL and how the founders have been rewarded handsomely, to the tune of $800 million, with diddly squat going to the artists who contributed site content. From the article:
As for the millions of members who have happily served as sharecroppers on the Birches’ plantation, they’ll get the satisfaction of knowing that all the labor they donated to their “community” did indeed create something of tangible value. No doubt they’re thrilled that the little Bebo plantation, which they’ve tended so lovingly, is now part of the giant AOL plantation, itself part of the Time-Warner conglomerate.
Add comment March 22nd, 2008 John Mark
In addition to our post yesterday on the subject of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and whether they represent us, I was encouraged to see a few others pop up with a similar line of thinking.
Mark Hinkle actually delved into the OSI by-laws and reported what he found.
Reuven Lerner opened the question of who should lead the Open Source community.
Both of these attack the problem from different angles, but the question remains: is the current setup the best we can manage? I would argue no.
Add comment March 22nd, 2008 John Mark
There has been significant conversation around the OSI of late, spurred by Bruce Perens campaign to become a board member. Having had a long history myself in Free and Open Source Software, the recent activity bears reflection and begs the question “What is the purpose of the Open Source Initiative?” Let’s take a look at the definition of Initiative (noun):
10 comments March 21st, 2008 John Mark
Sys-Con just announced that Hyperic HQ has been nominated for this summer’s Reader’s Choice Awards. The category we were nominated for is Best Virtualization Platforms Monitoring & Reporting. The nomination process is open until Sunday June 22nd, and the voting period will be until November 15. The final results will be at the upcoming 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo.
It’s of course always nice to be recognized as a contentious player in any market segment, but in this case I find the exact category really interesting. You see, there are several Virtualization Management Categories:
Add comment March 20th, 2008 Stacey Schneider
I was quite startled to learn yesterday that next week is OSBC (the Open Source Business Conference). As in, 7 days from now. We’ve got a few things going on at this year’s edition.
Javier will appear in the panel I’ll Show You My Forge If You Show Me Yours at 10:30am on Wednesday, March 26. The topic of discussion will be how you engage users and developers and sell them on the forge concept, and there will be a whole lot of expertise on hand to discuss it. Besides Javier, there’s also Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource, Dave Rosenberg, CEO of MuleSource, and Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier, OpenSUSE’s Community Director. Moderating is Eric Knorr, Editor-in-chief of InfoWorld. Now *that’s* a high-powered panel.
Add comment March 18th, 2008 John Mark
Via 451 CAOS Theory, just learned that the Software Freedom Law Center settled its GPL infringement suit with Verizon. I’ll leave the details of the case as an exercise for the reader, but it basically involves a company not adhering to the terms of the GPL.
As Jay Lyman of The 451 Group notes, this result is hardly a surprise:
…the GPL is not some exotic, first-of-its kind license, document or legal doctrine. Actually, it is based largely on U.S. copyright law, particularly in the case of GPLv2, which is the BusyBox license. It amazes me that some people think the GPL will be refuted, defeated or ‘thrown out of court.’ That would mean ‘throwing out’ U.S. copyright law, and I don’t see that happening, ever.
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