[Nagiosplug-devel] Working for Altinity

[DeBisschop, Karl]

As my own history demonstrates, working for a company that does not 
make it's living off open source software has a big downside too -- 
when other demands increase, open source work must be put on the shelf.

For that reason, I feel that it's not realistic to try and keep more 
than a rough 50% of the actively contributing team independent. The 
value that active corporate engagement can bring is far to important to 
reject.

So I wish you and Altinity the best, and thanks for making the 
disclosure.

On Aug 17, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Ton Voon wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I want to declare a potential conflict of interest. I have just 
> started a new job for Altinity (http://www.altinity.com). They sell a 
> monitoring solution based on Nagios called OpsView and have asked me 
> to help with their development, services and support to their 
> customers. One of the attractions of the company is that they "get" 
> open source and have confirmed that I can do Nagios Plugins work as 
> part of helping the overall community. Altinity have already released 
> code to Nagios Exchange and will be contributing more in future.
>
> I understand there may be concern that I will not be able to keep my 
> "two hats" separate (as Nagios Plugins project lead and as Altinity 
> employee), but I think I am capable of it. If you think there are 
> specific instances where I am not fulfilling this, you have my 
> permission to call it. Please contact me privately or via this mailing 
> list and I will try and resolve it or stand down if that is the 
> preferable outcome.
>
> But let's not be too negative. I think this move will allow this 
> project to move up a level, which will lead to better software. There 
> will be competition in the services space - as there are quite a few 
> resellers in the market - but this is what the commercial side of open 
> source software is all about. Anyway, I personally think that the 
> market for good monitoring solutions is very large - every company 
> needs it!
>
> I see the real targets are BMC Patrol, IBM Tivoli and all the other 
> complicated, expensive and frankly unusable products.
>
> Ton
>
>
> http://www.altinity.com
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Karl