Practical Open Source: Interview with Tarus Balog, Head of OpenNMS Development

“First, tell us a little about the history of
OpenNMS.

“OpenNMS was conceived in 1999 and registered on Sourceforge in
early 2000. As project 4141, it’s an early example of an
open-source project that is still around and active. It was started
in Raleigh, North Carolina, by a group of network management
professionals and software developers who were interested in
building the next generation of network management tools. That
group was acquired by a company in Kansas called Atipa, who, among
other things, sold Linux friendly servers…”

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