[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Linux developer Red Hat has acquired NOCpulse, a small company
that makes server Latest News about server monitoring software. The
acquisition will allow Red Hat to offer its users key increases in
network administration capability, most significantly the ability
to monitor networked computers as a group rather than as individual
nodes.“NOCpulse, a startup founded in 2000 in Sunnyvale, California,
makes software that monitors networked computers running a wide
variety of operating systems. In addition to monitoring Linux-based
servers, NOCPulse’s Command Center application allows centralized
administration of Sun Solaris servers, as well as servers that use
Microsoft Windows and Unix boxes that use Hewlett-Packard’s
HP-UX.“‘Having software that manages a collection of servers as if it
were a single entity will give Red Hat a stronger position in the
high-end server market,’ IDC analyst Dan Kusnetsky told
NewsFactor…”