Spam from Groundwork Open Source Solutions

[Paul L. Allen]

I just received this spam from Groundwork Open Source Solutions.  To the
best of my knowledge nothing I have ever posted has even implied that I
might be remotely interested in them, their product or their services. 

I don't recall responding to this guy on the list about anything either,
but I don't make any special effort to remember the names of people I
only respond to once or twice.  But even if I had answered one of his
questions or even asked him a question, that does not entitle him to
spam me with an advert for his product.  Maybe if I'd asked about
an integrated solution like openview he would be justified in sending
me a one-liner saying he had such a product and asking if I'd be
interested in more info but not a sales pitch. 

Of course, if I had asked on the list if there was an equivalent of
openview then the correct place to respond would have been to the list
so that others could see the answer and find it in the archives.  The fact
that he mailed me personally indicates that he knows damned well that
posting a sales pitch to the list would not be appreciated. 

Sadly, blocking him from the list won't stop him trawling the archives.
However, there is nothing to stop the Nagios documentation listing
companies like Groundwork that behave unethically and recommending that
people refuse to do business with them. 

Wayne Dahler writes: 

> Paul,
> After a very successful two years in the US market, we are looking to Europe as our next opportunity.  I am hoping that you can point me to the right person within your organization for a brief discussion on IT infrastructure-monitoring solutions. 
> 
> I have attached several documents that you can share with the person in your company who would be interested in how open source tools might be used to enhance your monitoring environment. 
> 
> In summary:
> We have integrated and enhanced 15 of the best-of-breed opensource tools together in IT GroundWork including Jetspeed, Nagios, RRD Tool and NTOP.  It provides monitoring coverage for networks, servers, applications, databases and network traffic.   
> 
> IT GroundWork delivers the same functionality as HP OpenView or CA Unicenter for about 20-30 percent of the cost.  Or if you are currently using tools that you like, but find that you have additional needs, IT GroundWork can augment your monitoring environment while maintaining your investment cost effectively. 
> 
> We are not looking to replace the tools you are currently using, rather we help companies like yours use open source tools to supplement their tools, cost-effectively enhancing their monitoring environment. 
> 
> Some areas that might be interesting to you are:
>  *  An IT Dashboard - high level overview for executives
>  *  Auto discovery tools - for easy of expansion
>  *  Synthetic transactions which document the exact performance of what an end-user/client experiences, breaking down the transaction by segments - internet, network, apps server, database back-end server, etc. to pin-pointing performance and bottlenecks.
>  *  Web portal for all your tools to roll up to - including single sign-on capability etc.
>  *  Highly graphical interface - broken down by the way you do business (geographic, departmental, functional, or any way you wish). 
> 
> If this sounds interesting to you or someone on your team, we provide a brief WEBEX presentation which will give you an opportunity to see a demo of the Groundwork package and its capabilities.  You can ask questions about how we might work within you environment and how we would integrate with you existing tools. 
> 
> Please give me a call and let me know your level of interest.  Thanks for your help and your time. 
> 
>  
> 
> Best Regards, 
> 
> Wayne Dahler
> Account Development Mgr.
> GroundWork Open Source Solutions
> (510) 899-7735-direct
> (510) 428.0980-fax
> www.itgroundwork.com
> wdahler at itgroundwork.com 
> 
> 
 


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Paul Allen
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