People Over Process

• Symantec to Sell Application Performance Management Business to Vector Capital
  Wouldn’t be fun if they open sourced?
  (tags: symantec m&a apm itmanagement itmanagementguys precisesoftwaresolutions)
• barcampESM
  Tarus’ wrap-up of barcampESM.
  (tags: opennms barcampesm itmanagement alterpoint bmc tivoli)
• The Sun-MySQL deal stinks
  (tags: mysql m&a opensource sunw dvorak)
• Austin City Limits
  Some notes on visiting OpenNMS customers.
  (tags: opennms gaming itmanagement austin)
• ApacheCon EU 2008
  Looks like I’ll be going to this.
  (tags: apachecon amsterdam travel opensource conferences)
• InsideRIA
  New blog site on RIA. Should be fun. I bet they need a podcast ;)
  (tags: ria blogs via:twitter via:ryanstewart adobe)
• APM Rolling Review: ProactiveNet — InformationWeek
  (tags: apm proactivenet bmc itmanagement reviews)
• APM Rolling Review: Foglight Illuminates Data — InformationWeek
  (tags: apm itmanagement questions foglight via:RyanShopp agents)
• Rolling Review: Network General - Application Infrastructure - Network Computing
  (tags: via:RyanShopp apm itmanagement NetworkGeneral)
• Rolling Review: Holistic Application Performance Management - Application Infrastructure - Network Computing
  “IT will generally hear about severe application performance problems. It’s ferreting out underlying causes, then fixing the issues, that’s hard.”
  (tags: apm itmanagement)
• APM Rolling Review: App Monitoring Made Really Easy - Application Infrastructure - Network Computing
  (tags: apm itmanagement indicative ServiceDirector)
• Rolling Review: NetIQ Aims to Balance Simplicity, Flexibility - Application Infrastructure - Network Computing
  (tags: netiq AppManager itmanagement apm)
• Rolling Review: Compuware Vantage 10 - Application Infrastructure - Network Computing
  (tags: compuware Vantage apm itmanagement)
• Rolling Review: Nimsoft Nimbus - Application Acceleration and Optimization - Network Computing
  (tags: nimbus nimsoft apm itmanagement)
• Digging into the DCAB’s 6 functional areas: Resource Reconciliation - Adventures in Data Center Automation
  Man, this stuff would be fun to code. Make sure you know “the true identity” of any given IT asset. This is the heart of a CMDB, otherwise it’s just trash.
  (tags: itmanagement reconciliation cmdb bmc ca emc hp ibm)
• Digging into the DCAB 6’s functional areas: Process Orchestration - Adventures in Data Center Automation
  (tags: automation itmanagement bmc hp opalis runbook)
• BEA re-tailors Tuxedo to get legacy apps into SOA party
  “The top 25 banks in the world are all using Tuxedo for credit card clearing and also for their ATM-based systems,” Cremona said. “If you use your local bank and you move money…Tuxedo is most likely running that transaction.”
  (tags: bea tuxedo oracle middleware transaction_mgmt banks atm)

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