We signed up Hyperic yesterday as a RedMonk customer, finally filling out the once so-called “Little 4” (there’s only 3 of them now) along-side Zenoss and Groundwork Open Source. I love working with open source driven IT management companies like these as they’re one of the primary areas that I find innovation occurring in the “lower levels” of the IT management space, that stratum where I got my start in the IT management world while at BMC. For example, early on Hyperic was one of the first IT management products to offer RSS feeds.
I’ve talked with the Hyperic team almost since joining RedMonk and I’ve always enjoyed talking with Javier, Stacey, and others. Check out the video above from JavaOne 2007, for example.
Also, in our kick-off call with Hyperic we learned something else exciting: long-time RedMonk friend Mike Olson is working with them (on a consulting basis). RedMonk started working with Mike before my time at RedMonk when at Sleepycat, but then after Sleepycat was acquired by Oracle I has to the chance to work with him before he departed. It was great talking with Mike again and to hear his enthusiasm for the work he’s starting up…which we’ll hopefully being see more of soon ;>
Disclaimer: as mentioned, Hyperic, Zenoss, and Groundwork are clients, as is BMC.
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