Managed Objects

There is more to social collaboration than providing the tools

skeptic — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:24:49 -0600

Last post on MyCMDB: I want to share with you the comment I left over on a really great post on CIO Weblog, because it leads in to a couple of posts I will be making about the Folly of the Crowd.

Software vendors and the bait-and-switch trick

skeptic — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:43:50 -0600

Software vendors love the old bait-and-switch. Readers are invited to contribute examples.

Auto-discovery is only a minor consideration for CMDB

skeptic — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:15:24 -0600

The vendors like to tout auto-discovery as a feature that solves the problem of discovery - how to populate a Configuration database and keep it populated. It isn't. [Oh alright, I'll call it a CMDB so long as we all understand I don't mean the ITIL-defined dream model].

MyCMDB? What are they smokin' over at Managed Objects?

skeptic — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:20:18 -0600

CMDB vendor proponents are often full of wind but this one is blowing a gale. What are they smokin' over at Managed Objects?