The Packet Scoop

As mentioned in this blog on more than one occasion it’s the clear opinion of PacketTrap that commercial open source is a dying business model. You’ve read our rather opinionated posts that commercial open source exploits the free and good faith efforts of great software developers to make a profit.  And of course our friend David Rosenberg shot [...]

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Seems like David Rosenberg over at CNET doesn’t like me. David is a CNET blogger and CEO of MuleSource, a commercial open source company. Although I won’t respond to his silly personal attacks, I will correct facts from his blog. We don’t use any open source code at all. None. We don’t bundle it. We [...]

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Today we released our position paper on our thoughts about open source software, how PacketTrap integrates with open source projects, and why we believe the hybrid open source commercial companies are going to fail. Yep, you heard it here first – especially in network management. We recently learned that Groundwork Open was laying off people, [...]

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As a commercial vendor you probably think we want to take Linus Torvalds to the woodshed and smack the crap out of him. You probably think that we believe that open source developers and the open source community is a collection of loosely connected cowboys that are impeding on our god given right to milk [...]

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All of us at PacketTrap have been involved in other successful technology startups, but this is the first time most of us have been directly involved in mass distribution of free software. Over five thousand Network Engineers, IT Administrators and SySAdmins have registered and used our network management and network monitoring software.
These people are [...]

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Earlier this week we announced the formation of the PacketTrap Advisory Board. I am pleased that these respected members of our industry have decided to help us build a world class network management company. There is a clear pain point in the market for more affordable, more intuitive, and less complex solutions to manage networks. [...]

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Microsoft, yesterday, released news that .NET library code will be made available in what some are calling “open code.” The 2008 release of Visual Studio, the integrated development environment that many developers use to write programs, will provide the ability for software engineers to step through the .NET framework. You can [...]

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We are strong advocates of the open source movement in network management. It’s here to stay, and it’s important that commercial solutions are compatible with open source implementations. We’re struggling with the ‘perception’ difference, however, between open source and freeware. Proprietary freeware / shareware network management software has been available for ages. Most of our [...]

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If you’re a commercial vendor you better learn to play nice with open source. Open source has developed a tremendous following and it’s here to stay. There is no question that open source has its drawbacks and it’s not as good as some of its advocates would have you believe, but it’s certainly not the [...]

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There are several ways to approach NMS and associated, but what I see are four general categories.
1. Open Source Projects
2. Open Source Hybrid
3. High End Commercial
4. Do it Yourself Commercial
 
Open Source
The pure free open [...]

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