{"id":678,"date":"2007-03-09T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T22:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/03\/09\/whurleybmc\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T22:47:32","slug":"whurleybmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/03\/09\/whurleybmc\/","title":{"rendered":"whurley@BMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whurley\/408316975\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/158\/408316975_0895622896.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ravenzachary\/statuses\/6154481\">Raven Twittered earlier this afternoon<\/a>, BMC is finally announcing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.com\/BMC\/News\/CDA\/hou_PressRelease_detail\/0,3519,8573740_0_75225900,00.html\">they&#8217;ve hired whurley as their &#8220;chief architect of Open Source Strategy&#8221;<\/a>. I&#8217;m excited to see BMC taking the step of formalizing their involvement in open source and, hopefully, throwing some gas on the embers that are currently there.<\/p>\n<p>I know whurley is up to the task: like the open source world itself, the man has no end of energy and drive. whurley also brings a rich set of connections into the open source world that &#8212; in my experience at least &#8212; has been lacking in a formal way at BMC. My hope is that BMC will give him the room and permission to &#8220;make it happen,&#8221; and hiring him is certainly a signal in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>So, all around, it&#8217;s exciting news.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what &#8220;BMC + open source&#8221; will look like in the short or long term. I&#8217;ve informally told folks at BMC that I&#8217;d open source the RSM (the &#8220;agentless agent&#8221; that performances the low-level monitoring in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.com\/products\/products_services_detail\/0,,0_0_0_2001,00.html\">BMC Performance Manager<\/a>) and\/or the PATROL agent.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/talk.bmc.com\/podcasts\/podcast-hurley\">this podcast for more info from BMC and whurley<\/a>. It has his fun Opensville analogy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer:<\/b> BMC is a client, I used to work there, and whurley is a friend.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/bmc\" rel=\"tag\">bmc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/whurley\" rel=\"tag\">whurley<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/redmonkclients\" rel=\"tag\">redmonkclients<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>whurley at BMC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-open-source"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}