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Qlusters, maker of the open source systems management software OpenQRM, last week announced on SourceForge.net that the most recent release of its OpenQRM systems management software would be the last from Qlusters.
According to an item posted last week by Amit Ashman, vice president of products at Qlusters, on SourceForge.net: "Following Release 3.5 - the last release from Qlusters - we hope the community will continue to evolve and develop OpenQRM together with Matt Rechenburg - OpenQRM’s active project manager, who has been doing a wonderful job not just in driving the community but also in evangelizing and promoting OpenQRM throughout the industry. Qlusters would like to wish the OpenQRM project community, and Matt Rechenburg, a future of prosperity and continued success."
Qlusters, founded in 2001 by former CEO Ofer Shoshan and Moshe Bar who have also been linked with XenSource, recently experienced some changes in its management team that could have led to this shift in product direction, speculates analyst Matthew Aslett who covers enterprise software for The 451 Group. Yet he says in a recent blog post that the company's decision to set OpenQRM free to the open source community offers little insight into Qlusters overall direction.
"No word yet from Qlusters on its future direction. However, it is not surprising to see changes at the company. It has been particularly quiet since former CTO William Hurley left to become chief open source strategy architect at BMC," Aslett writes. " In fact, I was more surprised to see an announcement regarding Qlusters than I was the fact that it is getting out of OpenQRM development.
The vendor is considered one of the little four open source management players alongside GroundWork Open Source, Hyperic and Zenoss. Little four is an obvious play on the big four vendors, incumbent management software market leaders BMC, CA, HP and IBM.
Open source management advocates could be concerned that Qlusters' passing off OpenQRM to community development and essentially exiting from the open source software game could be a sign of worse things to come. But Qlusters popularity with systems managers and overall success to date could keep its momentum going.
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One of the risksBy ldimeglio on April 18, 2008, 12:46 pmThis is one of the inherent risks of dealing with a vendor that is trying to commercialize open source software. I can't think of many (or any) that are doing this...
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benefits of open sourceBy jlim@sciencelogic.com on April 16, 2008, 11:58 amSo is the model of parlaying open source into commercially supported software broken? Or is this just a reflection on Qlusters? Some great benefits of having an...
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sell or dieBy Anonymous on April 16, 2008, 11:24 amunfortunately free in the network management world does not put food on the table. so either the team leaves for paying jobs or they start a company with paying...
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