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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NetDirector offers a Powerful Open Source Configuration Management Tool for Solaris OS

Cary, North Carolina - June 28, 2006 - Emu Software is pleased to announce the availability of their NetDirector Agent for Sun Solaris operating systems. NetDirector users wishing to manage their native UNIX services (Apache, BIND, Samba, Sendmail, Users and Groups, etc) running on Solaris can now download from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/netdirector) the NetDirector Beta Agents for their Solaris x86 and SPARC architectures. In combination with NetDirector's broad support for Linux, the availability of Solaris support enables mixed Linux/Solaris shops to more securely and efficiently manage their environments.

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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Company to Demonstrate New NetDirector Interface to Red Hat Network

Cary, NC – May 17, 2006 – Emu Software, a commercial open source configuration management vendor and sponsor of the Second Annual Red Hat Summit, will use the Summit to unveil the soon-to-be-released Red Hat Network (RHN) module for their NetDirector product.  The module provides seamless integration between RHN's patching and provisioning and NetDirector's multi-server configuration management capabilities.

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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Emu Software was mentioned in Mark Fontecchio's article at TechTarget titled Server Specs: Open source systems management group tackles interoperability

"Mark Hinkle, vice president of strategy and business development for Emu Software, used the analogy of a decathlon to describe the consortium.

"There are very skilled athletes who are really good at the decathlon, but they're not the best at each event," he said. "I want to get athletes who specialize and are the best at each event. I think that's advantageous, that you can have someone in each area that is really good at it."

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Sean Michaal Kerner mentioned Emu Software at InternetNews.com and quoted Emu Software Vice President, Mark R. Hinkle.

We're not going to kid you; our interests are for our company," Mark Hinkle, vice president of strategy at Emu Software, told internetnews.com.

But I'd like to think we're a bit enlightened in that when you go out there and foster innovation, it creates a lot of opportunity for ourselves as well as others.

"If we go out there and help create this ecosystem, there is a place for everyone in the ecosystem. It doesn't have to just be little fish and sharks; it can be all sorts of people," Hinkle added."

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Qlusters and Emu Software Lead Industry’s First Open Source Management Consortium

Cary, North Carolina, USA — May 9, 2006— Leading open source systems and network management vendors Qlusters and Emu Software today announced the industry’s first Open Management Consortium (OMC).  The Consortium will promote the benefits offered by open source and open standard technologies and will provide a forum for product development collaboration among open source IT management projects. The founding members of the OMC include Nagios (sponsored by Ayamon), NetDirector (sponsored by Emu Software), openQRM (sponsored by Qlusters), openSIMS (sponsored by Symbiot), the Webmin project and the Zenoss project (sponsored by Zenoss, Inc.).