Our Philosophy
Netstatz is geared towards helping individuals and institutions take advantage of freely available tools that have flexible Open Source licenses. We hope that together, with knowledge and enthusiam, we can contribute to a community to further refine these tools.
We do not intend to bridge our relationship using a call center. Instead through knowledge transfer we will show your team the resources available for that tool and, if necessary, condense community knowledge into simple SGML documents.
We have expertise across many Linux distributions and extensive experience with other enterprise grade operating systems such as Solaris and Windows. We prefer to work with Debian GNU/Linux for now, as its FHS structure makes sense. Moreover, it has demonstrated to be the simplest to maintain long-term and easiest to configure short-term due to the superior Debian package dependency and distribution upgrade/downgrade system. However, there are always exceptions, and deciding on the best platform to suit our client needs is an essential process.
Some Interesting Quotes
December 18th, 2003 Patent Site
I am concerned by current plans to legalise software patents in Europe, considering their damaging effect on innovation and competition. I am concerned by the possible use of software patents to patent business methods, education methods, health methods, etc.
Author - Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe
July 29th, 2003DMCA Analysis
Our fifth initiative is economic. History has shown that one of the best deterrents to pirated product is providing legitimate product at appropriate prices. In the music industry, we have already seen that people will gladly pay fair prices for legally-produced product even when it can be easily reproduced and unlawful copies can be easily acquired.
Michael Eisner - Disney
July 28th, 2003Mantra @ Dictionary.com
A commonly repeated word or phrase: Today's edutainment software comes shrinkwrapped in the magic mantra: makes learning fun. (Clifford Stoll).
Clifford Still
May 05, 2003 Adventures in Open Source
I have an opinion that the monitoring and management 'space' is about to enter "Phase 2" where businesses (both Monitoring Firms & corporate NOCs) begin to invest in the learning/knowledge/consulting rather than investing in the ridiculous licencing structures of OpenView, Spectrum, Empire, Tivoli, Big Brother, What'sUp.
OpenNMS is central to this change. The word is out on the street, and there are now corporate executives with linux backgrounds. I think there is going to be a strong need for a gang like the Sortova Group's consulting arm.
iBm - OpenNMS Discussion Mailing
www.ntop.org
As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.
