Comments on: Spiceworks: Quick-and-Easy, Free, Ad-supported Systems Management

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By: Jomdom

Jomdom — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:42:20 +0000

Whoo, Cote! Nice score w/ a link on the RoR blog ;)

People Over Process FTW!

By: Cote'

Cote' — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:13:24 +0000

I haven’t checked them out fully yet, but I definitly will. I even got a Nagios book, so that should be helpful.

By: ed markham

ed markham — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:10:07 +0000

Have you checked out Nagios and or webmin? da.. fine stuff.

By: James Governor's MonkChips

James Governor's MonkChips — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:17:10 +0000

All My Systems Management Clients Are Dead

People Over Process: Spiceworks: Quick-and-Easy, Free, Ad-supported Systems Management Well, not really that’s really a Gillmor-ism- but you really must check out Spiceworks, as written up by Cote. It is an asset management tool. Its a free ad supporte…

By: james governor

james governor — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:11:06 +0000

the tool is really slick. REALLY slick. RoR

By: Cote'

Cote' — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:13:14 +0000

No need to apologize, I know you guys have been busy and focusing on the actual running software and users. I can't slight a company for paying attention to those things over analysts ;>
And to be fair, Dave has answered my pesterings, even on vacation in the now blazingly hot UK.
And, yes, I do agree that FiveRuns and Spiceworks are more complementary than competitive. There is that gray-zone between how much people need, but to be frank, taking on the mind-set of an IT guy, it'd be nice to have tow clear-cut products for "I just want the simplest thing possile" (Spiceworks) to "I want to take care of things in more detail, but still in a non-complex way" (FiveRuns).
Of course, there are plenty of other people going for either, or both, of those desire-clusters ;&;
For a briefing, and time on Aug. 10th or 11th would be fine with me.

By: Steven Smith

Steven Smith — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:33:20 +0000

Hi Michael,

First let me apologize for not having briefed you on FiveRuns already. We've been swamped with beta requests (nearing or over 1000) and have been running full bore. So far, things have been going very well.

As far as Spiceworks and FiveRuns, there's been no collaboration to-date although our offerings at the moment are more complementary than competitive. As best I know, they're targeting desktop / device management at a macro-level so-to-speak and we're taking a more traditional systems management tact in terms of capability (full stack support). Our initial offering will be performance and availability monitoring as well as event managemenet for a variety of open source and commercial offerings including Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X Server, Windows, Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, MySQL, Oracle, and Rails at the application level, which I believe will be the first such commercial offering.

We'll be GA'ing our product at LinuxWorld the week of August 14th and I'd love to give you a sneek peak the week of August 7th if your schedule permits. Of course, the latter half of the week would be better for us. :-)

Thanks and thank you for the interest you've shown in our company.

Steven Smith

CEO, FiveRuns

P.S. Regarding the screenshots you found, so much for a "private" beta, eh? :-)