Muffins, Mules, and Meaningless Blogging

Hyperic days are generally very full days. So I sympathize with Dave Rosenberg’s apathy for blogging some days. Generally when I blog, I prefer to discuss a unique perspective on a meaningful topic that is relevant to today’s greater conversation. I have lots of these thoughts every day. What I don’t have is time.

When I do have time, I no longer feel the story is as interesting as when I first had the idea. Invariably, someone else has beaten the topic to death or changed the course of discussion.

1 comment September 6th, 2007 javier

Hyperic HQ 3.1 Finalist For Linux World Product Excellence Award

I am very pleased to announce, that among all the systems management vendors who are going to be at Linux World, the event producers, IDG World Expo, and the judging staff from LinuxWorld.com, have selected Hyperic HQ 3.1, as a finalist for the Best Systems Management Tool Award. This is especially exciting as it is further proof that our newest release, Hyperic HQ 3.1, is going to meet the demands of some of the keenest eyes out there in software.

As for who else was selected, we are in a class with some very respectable competition:

1 comment August 3rd, 2007 javier

Hyperic Releases Alfresco Plugin

Released today, administrators of the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management System now have access to a fully supported, enterprise-ready systems management solution with Hyperic HQ for Alfresco. The new Hyperic HQ plugin instantly enables HQ and Alfresco administrators to take full advantage of Hyperic’s powerful management capabilities, including auto-discovery, monitoring, complex alerting and remediation. With today’s release of the Hyperic HQ for Alfresco plugin, Hyperic HQ becomes the only monitoring system to natively support Alfresco deployments on every platform and architecture.

Add comment July 31st, 2007 Hyperic Press Desk

Hyperic is where the action is

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.

4 comments July 24th, 2007 javier

Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra is now available

Beginning today, administrators of Zimbra Collaboration Suite, the leader in open source, next-generation email and collaboration software, now have a fully supported, enterprise-ready solution for managing their complex, mission critical environments with the general availability of Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra. The plugin made available by Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, will allow Zimbra customers to easily monitor and manage the performance of their open source messaging and collaboration suite along with all other layers of their infrastructure.

1 comment June 26th, 2007 Hyperic Press Desk

Podcast with Microsoft’s Sam Ramji

 

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Doug and Javier had a great conversation with Sam Ramji of Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab. You can read about it at Port 25. Some choice tidbits:

We had a great discussion, which I opened bluntly by saying, “You don’t need to tell me about your software; I’ve seen it, my lab team thinks it’s cool, and we’re impressed.” He was happy to hear it but probably not surprised.

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1 comment June 19th, 2007 John Mark

Hyperic Community Newsletter

Our latest newsletter is out! Read about MySQLConf, JavaOne, HQ 3.0.4, Charles Lee in the Java Developers Journal, our scholarship contest, and much more.

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Add comment May 15th, 2007 John Mark

Answer Questions, Win Prizes

We’ve introduced something new here at Hyperic. Every member of our community forums now has a tiny icon next to their user name. For Hyperic employees, it’s the “H” logo. For everyone else, you’ll see one of 6 icons, depending on how many points you’ve accumulated. This is part of our new rewards program, where you get credit for answering forum questions. And if you do something really special, like contribute a plugin, patch, or HOWTO document, we’ll assign you special bonus points… and you get a little gold star!! Ok, not really, unless you just really want one

Add comment March 19th, 2007 John Mark

Charles Lee Featured in Java Developers Journal

Charles Lee, Hyperic VP of Engineering, has written the first in a series of articles to be featured in the Java Developers Journal titled, “Bridging the Gap Between Open Source and Commercial Applications.” The series of articles is about the migration of HQ from EJB2 to Hibernate and is a fascinating case study about the undertaking.

Add comment March 8th, 2007 John Mark

InformationWeek: How To Tell The Open Source Winners From The Losers

Charles Babcock has written an interesting article discussing how to project an open source project’s success or failure. There’s also a nice bit about the role of user communities, which includes a quote from Javier:

Many think of an open source “community” as a passel of unpaid developers who code because they love it, but that’s not the driving force behind most of the work. In general, only a small group is allowed to modify or submit changes to source code. Other developers submit code to these core developers. But most important for companies assessing the health of a project is the size–and motivation–of the group of users hammering away on the code and identifying what’s wrong with it, and how the project responds to that input. For example, the Hyperic development team spends a quarter of its time participating in user forums, CEO Javier Soltero says.

Add comment February 5th, 2007 John Mark