links for 2007-08-02

• Open source marching on system management space
  Incumbent vendors meanwhile are likely to respond by releasing parts of their technology under an open source licence, which would essentially amount to a price drop.
  (tags: OSS systemsmanagement networkmanagement monitoring)
• John Willis - My Views on OSS ESM (Part 1) - People Over Process » links for 2007-08-01
  This guy and the IT Skeptic need to get together and have a kid. It’d be great.

  -Looks like Cote’ likes what you have to say John!-

• An Excerpt From Boiling the IT Frog
  Some of the worst difficulties in communicating with an IT organization are caused by differing definitions of nontechnical words.
  (tags: alignment business it it-value book)
• Biggest Lie in Enterprises -”Network is Down”
  “The CIO’s fate is mired by the challenges on last mile, lost mile, and his perpetual search for the lasting mile.”
  (tags: cio networkmanagement monitoring performancemgt user-experience)
• IBM Redbooks | IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT Portfolio Overview
  IBM will enhance and adapt this product to provide functions specific to IT asset management such as facilities to handle contract management, full asset life-cycle management, integration with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions and much more.
  (tags: IBM Tivoli asset-management ITAMforIT ITAM)

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