“HP announced OpenView Express 2.0, which brings OpenView
support and functionality to Windows NT and Windows 2000. In
similar fashion, Dirig Software, in Nashua, N.H., unveiled its
Smart Plug-In for the Linux environment to provide management
capabilities for customers running applications on Windows-based
systems that operate in conjunction with Linux servers running the
Apache Web server….”
“By making Apache/Linux Web server environments accessible
to enterprises that had little use for OpenView before, Dirig is
helping the software management company target a new audience eager
to consolidate its management products, said Bartlett,
Ill.-based Meta Group analyst Corey Ferengul, program director of
service management strategies.”
“Dirig is getting HP to platforms [that HP] couldn’t get to fast
enough,” Ferengul said. “These guys are someone to be taken
seriously in the agent space. This gives a lot of credibility to
HP.”