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Big 4 customers not only target for open source

2008/10/07 - The 451 Group

Zenoss, which just released a Professional Edition of its systems management software for medium-sized organizations, announced five new employees with experience from the more traditional systems management vendors. New Zenoss VP of Product Marketing Chris Farrell comes to the systems management company after serving previously as the first product management director at Wily Technology (acquired by CA for $375m in January 2006) and at IBM, Ericsson and ClearApp. Zenoss also has a new Director of Federal Sales in Phil Higgs, who was previously VP of Marketing at ClearApp (acquired by Oracle for an undisclosed amount in September 2008). New Zenoss Director of Engineering Mike Lunt comes to the open source systems management vendor from BMC and will be responsible for Zenoss’ worldwide engineering. Another new addition, Director of Global Alliances Brian Riley, comes to the company from Novell and will now focus on developing partnerships with systems integrators and other software companies, a place where we have long seen opportunity in the space. Zenoss also adds Director of Product Management Brandon Whichard, who prior to joining Zenoss was Product Line Manager for Sun Microsystems’ Provisioning products. Whichard also spent time with Evity and then BMC when it bought the Web monitoring software company.

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