links for 2007-08-02

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)

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!-

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)

“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 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)