My thoughts on the issue,
 
CA is most likely investigating the incrased interest in open source solutions 
with these types of survey's. In the Linkedin group "Spectrum professionals" a 
discussion was recently posted regarding the guys behind MicroMuse and 
Riversoft (www.rivermuse.org) than now is aiming at the fault management market 
with Open Source alternatives.
 
All software development companies will feel a increased threat from open 
source alternatives in the future and a good strategy in how to handle the 
situation is vital for survival. Even if Spectrum is well ahead technically 
than any open source alternative within it's area, forming a strategy is needed 
- today.
 
Note that even big players are releasing the products in open source. There are 
many examples. Why? Well, it's both a PR trick and a way of handeling the 
threat. What if for example IBM have plans to release their complete suite of 
management products as open source. Even if their networking tool ("Tivoli 
Precision") isn't much to compare against Spectrum, it may be a well preformed 
PR trick than gain trust in a future for it - were everybody are invited to 
evolve the product.
 
To quote the character Mouse in the movie Matrix from 1999: - "We live in 
exciting times".
 
It's friday, have a great weekend!
 
/Roberth
 
  

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where none suffered; where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one 
would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked 
the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe that as 
a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. So 
the perfect world we dreamed, but your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake 
up from. Which is why The Matrix was redesigned to this...the peak of your 
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Från: Bourlin, Stephen [mailto:[email protected]] 
Skickat: den 8 oktober 2009 22:09
Till: spectrum
Ämne: [spectrum] FW: CA Spectrum OneClick Enhancement Request User Community 
Survey



Did anyone else get this survey? This has got to be one of the weirdest 
survey's I've ever taken! There are 41 questions and your choices for the 
questions are 'I don't want this changed', 'Okay, as long as it's free', ' The 
change is worth $200 to me', 'The change is worth $1000 to me' & 'The change is 
worth $2000 to me'.  I'm sorry what is CA looking for again?  Do they want to 
know if we would like the changes or how much we're willing to pay for them? 
Spectrum is a good product but not if we have to pay extra for simple feature 
enhancements!

 

 

Seriously confused,

 

Stephen B.

DoIT NMS/NOC

 

 

 

 

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Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:42 PM
To: Bourlin, Stephen
Subject: CA Spectrum OneClick Enhancement Request User Community Survey

 

Hello Stephen Bourlin - 

 

You are receiving this message because you are a registered member of the CA 
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