Virtual Daniel

Open Management Consortium

Friday Mar 16, 2007

I've been spending a lot of time this week thinking about open source and systems management. I think there is a tremendous opportunity for Sun to play a role in this space and help drive the development of a unified open platform. I think there are a number of innovative offerings in the open source space, but the solutions I've seen don't necessarily have the scale and feature breadth to support a broad range of customers (from start-up to enterprise).

The pickle facing companies that have the breadth and scale to offer a comprehensive systems management platform is that the offerings are typically closed, fragmented and difficult to deploy -- three traits that don't lend very well towards building volume and community. In my mind whoever can develop an offering that is open, unified, scalable, easy to deploy, and has features that are "good enough" will have a tremendous opportunity to build a large community and drive volume.

Check out the map below to see the growing list of open source systems management supporters at the Open Management Consortium. Click on the map to check out there site and membership.