http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/taxonomy/term/941/0 en http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/682 <p>When <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2631" rel="nofollow">Dana Blankenhorn </a> asked yesterday if Open Source was one of the reasons why Diane Greene was <a href="http://virtualization.com/news/2008/07/08/diane-greene-vmware-paul-maritz/" rel="nofollow">fired at VMWare</a> I had to smile a bit .. obviously the economy is changing and Open Source is a real competitor to proprietary software ... but to fire the CEO , nah .</p> <p>Firing developers that are working on an almost obsolete product however is a relevant thing to do. IBM just <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1136520.html" rel="nofollow">let go 150</a> , <a href="http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/tivoli-layoffs/" rel="nofollow">30 </a> of which in their Tivoli department.</p> <p>Tools such as Tivoli, HP OpenView (what were they smoking when they chose that name) , and others are obviously feeling the heat from opensource. With frameworks such as Nagios and tools such as Zabbix, Zenoss and HypericHQ their fate has been written already .</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/682#comments big four diane greene hyperic little tree nagios open source opensource openview tivoli vmware zabbix zenoss Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:55:00 +0000 Kris Buytaert 682 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog