Maria Winslow writes about NetDirector in her column NetDirector, an introduction: Free, Simple Server Management

"NetDirector, with its rich user interface and ability to manage a large number of servers, is a welcome addition to the open source systems management scene. Organizations looking for an easier way to manage groups of Linux, Solaris, or BSD servers should investigate the tool for their management needs."

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Don St. John from Server Pipeline mentions Emu in his blog entry,

"Mark Hinkle, VP of business development at founder member Emu Software, told me that the consortium is aiming for anything but a top-down approach. "In a typical consortium, a bunch of vendors come together and try to figure out how they can market their products; you can participate, but it;s based around their approach," he said. "We're more interested in starting a conversation; we like to think ours is a little more democratic right from the start."

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Timothy Pritchett Morgan wrote an article titled, "Open Management Consortium to Drive Tool Integration" where he validates the needs for open source management tools.

"While this is all a necessary first step, in the long run, OMC will likely be the forge for a sophisticated systems management toolset. The members of the OMC took great pains to not position themselves against IBM's Tivoli, CA's Unicenter, and Hewlett-Packard's OpenView tools, which are the big three in systems management. "Replacement is not the goal--but integration with existing tools is," said Hinkle. While this is true, small and medium businesses don't use these big system management frameworks. They pay administrators to use all kinds of tools and write scripts and baby-sit machines."
 

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Denis Dubie mentions Emu Software in her artcle on NetworkWorld, "Open-Source Managment Arrives".

 "Zenoss has been downloaded 2,000 times since it went open source under a modified version of the Mozilla open source license in February. And Emu Software's NetDirector configuration-management tool has been downloaded 1,200 times since the company made it available in April under a similar modified Mozilla license model."

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