AW: tell me how many are you....

[jeff vier]

That was my first thought.

I guess I take my workplace for granted.  I often hear (after a sales/
marketing request) "Hey, Jeff, is there an open source tool that can do
that?".

I can't imagine putting up with "But BYTE magazine says this is best!"

*shudder*

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 14:44 -0400, Spencer Horn wrote:
> Why would one NOT like opensource?
> 
> Neil wrote:
> 
> > Thanks guys. I now have a baseline on how to spec our Nagios machine. 
> > I only have one more battle left and that is the management decision 
> > between choosing Servers Alive(M$0ft Window based) and Nagios. They 
> > like the Nagios because it is so flexible and we can write our own 
> > custom checks. I recently wrote a check that will return a value of 
> > CRITICAL(2) to Nagios if there is a deadlock going on in an MSSQL 
> > server. The only problem they have with Nagios is that it is open 
> > source. But I have given them tons of good information/advantages 
> > about opensource. I hope, within this week, we'll find out who the 
> > winner is.
> > Thanks again.
> > Neil
> >
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