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Tuesday February 19, 2008

This is what I do for a living: xVM Ops Center
Sun has finally announced the availability of xVM Ops Center (sic). This is something that I and many others have been working on for quite some time - so long in fact that I've forgotten when we actually started. In some ways you could say we've been working on it in one way or another for ten years.

I'm not going to explain what it does; you can read all about that in the press releases and on the net. But when you try it out and you click on the Update tab, think of me and the team I work with. The odd thing about software development is that you get so close to a product, it's hard to step back and view it objectively. It's like wallpapering a room; it looks good, but I know where the joins are, where I had to cut the paper to make it fit, and above all else I know that the blasted room isn't as rectangular is it was supposed to be.

So far everyone who has looked at it seems to like it. Hopefully it fills a need and makes the lives of sysadmins a lot easier. And hopefully we can all take a breather and relax a bit before we start work in earnest on the next version.

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