Open Source Systems Management Ramps Up in Down Economy

The open source systems and network management space is heating up with new releases coming soon from vendors Groundwork, Hyperic and Zenoss. Among the new features that will appear in the respective vendors new releases are improved cloud features, virtualization, network management and improved Java app server features.

“When times are good, people aren’t as critical of their applications and they tend to overpay,” Mark Hinkle, vice president of community at Zenoss argued. “The economic slowdown has helped to illustrate the value of open source. When times are tough, you start re- evaluating how you do business.”