Comments on: Red Hat opens Network...now how about a community?

Red Hat has the chance to lead again by fostering a commercial open-source community around Project Spacewalk. Does it have the stomach for leadership?

[mbbickel]

Red Hat already put out a really nice infrastructure in combination with Hyperic - http://www.rhq-project.org/. This was the basis of the JBoss Network, and is a more services oriented approach with a very nice agent architecture that let's any component gain management capability. We are using this for our upcoming release of Ringside Networks Social Application Server. In essence we are opening up the social services for management and understanding. This kind of proves the open model.

Bob Bickel
(Note, I am on the board at Hyperic and was a former JBoss employee and own stock in Red Hat and am a founder of Ringside Networks)

[jojomcleod]

And does that have a thriving community around it?

[mbbickel]

Between the JBoss Networ, Hyperic and RHQ, there is a very thriving set of users and controbutors. Arguably better than anything else out there, with the possible exception of the lower end and Nagios. Bob Bickel

[jojomcleod]

Really? Where is this community? I googled around and did not find much.

It looks like Spacewalk already has a pretty impressive community. There are many blog posts about it and it seems several active mailing lists.