[Nagiosplug-devel] NOCPulse

[Benjamin Madsen]

2 years ago, we were in contact with NOCPulse to evaluate their 
services.  They are, indeed, one of those "ASP loophole" companies that 
just sell the services of open-source program.  I think they had done some 
customization, definitely of the web frontend, but it significantly 
reminded me of Netsaint at the time.  When asked, they said the platform 
was, indeed, based around the Netsaint daemon and plugins.

A few months after the evaluation (my company never ended up purchasing as 
they closed their doors about a month later), NocPulse ended up scaling 
back to a more conservative growth scale after their originally intense 
startup phase.  I got the sense that they over-estimated the market they 
were in, and that their service didn't add much to the already diverse 
range of products and services in existence.

My $0.02

-Ben
Owner / Sr. Technical Engineer
Codifiant Technologies
(925) 997-7176
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At 06:00 PM 10/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm not exactly sure what the deal is with NOCPulse.  I was contacted
>by two different NetSaint users in March and April of last year who
>had been in contact with NOCPulse sales staff.  They mentioned that
>the salespeople let it slip out that NP was built around the NetSaint
>daemon, with a custom frontend and reporting interface.
>
>One of them mentioned their service ran about $5000 a month, but I
>have no way of verifying that number.  If so, I should have started
>my own company a long time ago. :-)  Anyway, if they are not selling
>the software - i.e. they are just selling a service - this may fall
>into the "ASP loophole" with regards to the GPL.  If however, they
>are selling/distributing the software or decide do so in the future,
>this could be interesting...