Zenoss Community,
Greetings. I wanted to take a few minutes and give you an overall
update on all things Zenoss...
It has been a while since our last update. A lot of good stuff is
going on. Please see the highlights below.
Overall, we're very happy with progress and adoption. With over 20K
downloads in the last 3 months, over 1200 folks on our mailing lists,
and being recognized as one of the top 10 open source projects to
watch. We're growing more quickly than we had planned!
Thank you as always for your support and interest in the product/
project.
If you have input/questions on all things Zenoss, please don't
hesitate to email me directly or send an email to zenoss-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best Regards, Bill
Co-Founder & CEO
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simplifying Systems Management
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Zenoss Highlights August & September:
** Zenoss Among Top Ten Open Source Companies to Watch **
- On Aug 29, Network World Magazine published its Top 10 Open
Source companies to Watch
- Zenoss was included on the list
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/082806-open-source.html?
page=9
** Zenoss Software Product **
- 0.22 has been release including several patches (0.22.4 is latest)
- download latest at http://www.zenoss.com/download
- key features of 0.22 include:
- support for Nagios plugins
- several GUI enhancements
- support for maintenance windows
- improved handling of unicode character sets
- improved assignment of users to systems
** Venture Funding **
- On Aug 11, we announced that we had landed venture financing
of $4.8M
- The good news for Zenoss community members and end users is
that this means we
have the resources to continue to invest in the project and
community and ensure
that we remain the most complete open source IT management
product
- We worked hard to find venture capitalists who understand and
are committed to open source
- The use of proceeds is primarily for the hiring of talent to
drive the following:
(1) product development
(2) community development and project partnering
(3) development and sales of commercial offerings
** Zenoss Web Sites **
- We collapsed zenoss.org and zenoss.com into one web site
(zenoss.com)
- We did this because it was getting confusing as to where to
go for content and we
were struggling keep both current
- As our community infrastructure improves and gets further
built out, we'll revisit
the separate web site issue
- Please share if you have specific thoughts here ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
** Zenoss Team Building **
- We have had several key folks join the team including:
- Drew Bray ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- documentation specialist
- now handling our product release communications
- also currently working on a "Zenoss Quick Start" guide
- look for communications from Drew shortly
- please send inputs on documentation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- Rusty Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- web and IT infrastructure specialist
- now running point on evolving the web site(s)
- please send inputs on web sites ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- Steve McManus ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- very experienced professional who is great with
customers & employees
- an advisor and investor who joined to drive sales
and services
** Zenoss T-Shirts **
- We have a few t-shirts remaining...
- If you have not gotten one and would like to have one of
the original shirts,
please send me an email and we'll see what we can do...
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