[TriLUG] demoing F/OSS innovation(s)

[craig at cookitservices.com]

>If there's a regard in which some F/OSS package is better than it's competitor from the 
>proprietary world, then show that.  Or maybe demonstrate to people
>that they can, using F/OSS do things they may have thought were either
>impossible, or prohibitively expensive.

I am an expert in Big Brother system monitoring software.  I'm my opinion, it can complete with BMC Patrol and HP openview, and far easier to use.  www.bb4.com.  It has a "Better than Free" license which allows organisations to use it for free as long as they don't directly make money off it.

I installed and customised a site monitoring over 1500 devices on their network.  $4 billion biotech company.

It is easy to install and monitors 1+ servers, SNMP devices, networks, etc.

I am willing to put a presentation (live demo) together showing it running on linux.

Craig Cook