If you’ll be joining us at OSCON this year, be sure and check out the Evolution of Community panel featuring yours truly.
Over the past ten years, nothing has impacted business more than community. Whether through the openness of software development spurred by Linux or the dismantling of media empires through blogging, the rise of communities has been the driving force in how we work and live today. But what’s next? For open source developers, what has to happen to maintain and grow the communities they’ve built? What happens to communities when successful projects are acquired by big corporate behemoths? What happens to communities when their projects fail?
Hyperic CEO, Javier Soltero explains the cloudy nature of distributed computing during his Velocity keynote. When there’s an outage, and there will be, is it your application? Or the Cloud? Javier unveils CloudStatus.com and takes the audience on a test drive.
The Velocity Conference was a sold out show with many of the sessions being standing room only. We met face-to-face with many of our customers and community members, some of which came all the way from Europe for the event.
If you’re a user, developer or partner looking to customize HQ, then you need to check out the HQU developer’s guide. Learn how to extend the HQ portal, automate HQ functions and integrate HQ with other sytems. It’s totally groovy.
Plugin of the Month - Cisco Content Services Switch
This Hyperic HQ plugin monitors Cisco CSS Interface and Cisco CSS Service of a Cisco Content Services Switch with SNMP. Check for availability throughput and utilization. The plug in was developed by Ernst-Jan Verhoeven and Aljoscha Vorst at the University of Amsterdam, and AmsterDAM it’s a fine plugin.
(disclaimer: we cannot vouch or provide support for this plugin)
Congrats to Ernst-Jan and Aljoscha! As a reward, we will provide them with a $250 gift certificate.
Our engineers have been publishing iterations–pre-alpha versions of code–on SourceForge.net. If you’re very curious and love to tinker and hack on developmental code, take a look:
The Velocity Conference wrapped up yesterday. It was a sold out show - and just the kind of crowd that we like to see! The whole conference was based on web operations, and the conference goers were very enthusiastic. Many of the sessions were standing room only. It was personally great for me to be able to meet face-to-face with many of our customers and community members which I normally don’t get to see - some of which came all the way from Europe for the event. Quite exciting!
Hyperic headlines today’s news, but as usual Yahoo! is all over everybody else’s news…
Michael Vizard writes about the need for change in IT management as cloud computing becomes increasingly commonplace, citing Hyperic as a company that is helping to create this new approach to IT management
Get your download finger ready! Mozilla confirmed its release of Firefox 3 will be next Tuesday, June 17th and they’ll be trying to set the world record for the most downloads in 24 hours.
This phrase was used close to a dozen times by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com at his recent keynote at the MySQL conference. Werner used it to describe the day to day tasks of most web operations teams… tasks like racking boxes, configuring routers, and installing software. He mentioned ops teams at Amazon got to spending 70% of their time in this mode, and this was one of the main catalysts for developing infrastructure that brings us S3, SQS, EC2, and more.
The team just finished our second successful MySQL Con. Many thanks to Marten & Zack and all the folks at O’Reilly that put on such a great conference.
This year definitely had a different feel, and of course that had a lot to do with Sun’s influence. It felt like it was almost a new event, a chapter 2 for MySQL, and its ecosystem of vendors and customers. There were more people - I don’t know exact numbers, but it felt appeared to be twice as packed. The exhibit hall was the same, but we took up a bit more space than last year and certainly there were much fancier booths - ours included! We even gave away multiple prizes this year - our fun 8-ball tshirts, and a couple remote control helicopters. Scott Baird and Mike Hogan were the lucky winners this year.
The Linux Foundation is holding their Collaboration Summit in Austin, TX this week. After browsing through some of the videos, I was pleasantly surprised to see Javier getting an interview.
We are positively stoked to be going to this weekend’s Lug Radio Live in San Francisco! Lug Radio Live (LRL) will be held on April 12 and 13 at the Metreon on 4th and Howard, which you’ll note is approximately 2 blocks from Hyperic headquarters. LRL features a who’s who of prominent Open Source luminaries, including Jeremy Allison of Samba fame, Miguel de Icaza, Ian Murdoch, ‘Mako’ Hill, and many others. I’ve been assured that I’m also on the program at 3pm on Sunday, April 13, although my name is not listed :)
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.
