GroundWork Launches Public Build Process for GroundWork Monitor Open Source Version 5; Unprecedented Access Gives Developers Ability to Port and Extend GroundWork Monitor Open Source.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com), the leader in open source-based IT operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. , today announced their Public Build process for their GroundWork Monitor Open Source IT infrastructure and networking monitoring solution. The Public Build allows users of *nix derived operating systems (such as Solaris or any Linux variant) to build GroundWork Monitor Open Source for their platform. In addition, GroundWork will support the packaging of builds into install packages, providing other users of the same platform with a one-step installation procedure. The build process for GroundWork Monitor Open Source is freely available under the GNU General Public License A software license from the Free Software Foundation (FSF) that ensures every user receives the essential freedoms that define "free" software, which is free of restrictions (see free software). (GPL See GNU General Public License. 1. GPL - General Purpose Language. 2. GPL - ["A Sample Management Application Program in a Graphical Data-driven Programming language", A.L. Davis et al, Digest of Papers, Compcon Spring 81, Feb 1981, pp. 162-167]. ) and downloadable from the GroundWork website at http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/index.html or via SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gwmos. "Since its release as an .rpm installation package in March, thousands of people have downloaded and installed GroundWork Monitor Open Source, and the accompanying demand for Groundwork on Linux distributions has been phenomenal," said Ranga Rangachari, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of GroundWork. "The public build makes it possible for any Linux user to build GroundWork Monitor Open Source, broadening the reach of our solution to a much wider audience. In addition, we're providing developers with the freedom to look under the hood under the hood - [hot-rodder talk] 1. The underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to grok it. of the platform, and customize it with an openness that they could never experience with a proprietary solution." Through comprehensive integration of dozens of individual best-of-breed open source IT monitoring tools, GroundWork Monitor Open Source is providing world-class monitoring to organizations that previously couldn't afford it. GroundWork Monitor Open Source allows systems administrators to proactively manage and control their IT environment with no license hassles. Even with the release of the Public Build process, GroundWork Monitor Open Source will continue to be available as an .rpm package for quick and easy installation on Red Hat, SuSE, and CentOS (Community ENTerprise OS) A Linux distribution that is built from the same open source modules in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is a commercial product. Since Linux is open source, the OS can be copied and distributed without infringing on any distributor's rights . Additionally, GroundWork Monitor Open Source provides a framework that makes it extremely easy for organizations to 'plug-and-play' with additional monitoring and management technologies from the open source community, such as: NeDi, MRTG MRTG Multi Router Traffic Grapher , RRDtool, ntop, Network Weathermap, Cacti, Ganglia ganglia /gan·glia/ (gang´gle-ah) plural of ganglion. and many more. About GroundWork San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com) is the leader in the fast-growth market for open source IT operations management software. The company integrates, enhances and develops leading open source software to deliver comprehensive IT monitoring solutions at a fraction of the cost of traditional software. With GroundWork solutions, enterprises leverage the flexibility and low cost of open source tools to achieve enterprise-level availability, performance and operational efficiency. GroundWork customers represent a variety of industries, including manufacturing, government, financial services, education, and high technology. The company is privately held, with investments from Mayfield and Canaan Partners. |
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