People Over Process

• Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share: Transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock; provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders; combined entity to create a more competitive com
  Would it help or hurt OpenID?
  (tags: msft yahoo! m&a openid)
• Shell IT staff disgusted at mega profits
  The same old story: company makes profits, fires-then-outsources thousands of workers. The mythical Shareholder and his executive comes off looking heartless. Yay, capitalism!
  (tags: layoffs via:techmeme shell unions shareholders)
• Cisco veteran launches net management start-up - Network World
  Patches and updates your network devices, quickly, the marketing foes.
  (tags: via:dmcclure networkmanagement configurationmgmt pari security compliance)
• Aternity Releases Frontline Performance Intelligence Platform - ebizQ
  “By transforming every desktop into a self-monitoring platform that is end user experience aware, we’re enabling” some performance monitoring.
  (tags: via:dmcclure apm transactions itmanagement performance)
• Symphoniq > Products
  Debug/Monitor different parts of a transaction baking as web application call. Looks like they use Flex for their front-end too.
  (tags: via:dmcclure symphoniq apm transactions f5 flex)
• Silicon Republic » European CIOs trump their US brethren
  “For instance, businesses are starting to relate a server failure, not just to an availability metric, but to whether a customer gets their order delivered.”
  (tags: via:dmcclure bsm eu itmanagement process alignment)
• An Overview of the Common Model Library for IT Management
  White-paper describing the CML effort to provide a common data model of IT stuff so that IT management stuff can figure out what’s going on easier than cracking open black boxes. Underlying stuff for MSFT DSI
  (tags: cml sml ca bmc msft dsi models itmanagement itmanagementguys)
• Will Compuware 2.0 include a clear BSM story and viable solution? — dougmcclure.net
  Compuware to figure out getting people to pay more attention to them.
  (tags: compuware itmanagement itmanagementguys)
• Startup Of The Week: FireScope Makes Business Service Management More Efficient — Business Service Management
  (tags: firescope bsm via:dmcclure startups itmanagement)
• ProactiveNet
  (tags: correlation events bmc proactivenet via:dmcclure performance apm)
• Integrien | Alive™
  Tries to figure out patterns of failure in your IT world.
  (tags: via:dmcclure correlation itmanagement events apm performance)

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