Nagios Founder Gives In to Commercial Support

[ Thanks to Peter Parker for this link. ]

"Ethan Galstad, creator of the Nagios network monitoring project, has created Nagios Enterprises LLC to provide commercial support and consulting services for his nine-year-old open source project.

"'Two years ago, I left my day job to work on Nagios full time, and I realized very quickly that it would take a lot to fund development time on an open source project,' Galstad said. 'I looked at where I wanted to take Nagios in the future--especially in terms of new features--and I decided I wanted to really speed up development time...'"

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