Michael Cote over at Red Monk posted a great piece on his People Over Process blog which sets out the case for open source software and talks about governance and leverage.  Read the article here. ... read more

As we build out our community web presence ready for our upcoming launch I have been pulling together good reference sources and their URL’s. I thought I would share a “top three” here and ask readers to respond with their own “top three”.    My first list is SNMP related: 1.  MibDepot – Comprehensive dictionary of MIBs (10k +) & search engine. 2.  SNMPTools – Reference and Software site for... read more

We have been having some fun writing our internal documentation and setting out our view of a two tier architecture around event and alert.  Before we publish our documentation Wiki we thought some of our readers might like to tell us what they see as the difference between an event and an alert?  If we like your answer more than ours, we may enshrine it in... read more

RiverMuse’s European Business Development Director, Nigel Heaney is shortly off to Nepal with UNICEF to support their work in the region. His Challenge will be to Trek for 6 days in Nepal, walking for 6-8 hours each day at altitudes up to 4,000 metres camping each night. Each participant in the Challenge has been asked to raise £3,150 to cover the costs and provide much needed... read more

The thriving London Open Source community is holding a show and tell session near the RiverMuse London office on Thursday April 9th.  From 5 to 7pm Venue:  The Team, 30 Park Street, London, SE1 9EQ Guest speakers include: Jason Mesut (The Team) – Open Source on the Monome Leisa Reichelt (Drupal) – Drupal.org redesign Blaine Cook (Osmosoft, former chief architect of Twitter) – Federated messaging in the clouds Iain Farrell (The... read more