The open-source CEO: An interview with Dave Lilly of GroundWork
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Dave Lilly, CEO of GroundWork
(Credit: GroundWork)
I caught up with Dave Lilly, founder and CEO of GroundWork, earlier this week to see how things are going. Lilly recently replaced GroundWorks’ former CEO, Ranga Rangachari, and I was interested to hear about the changes at GroundWork.
GroundWork is an open-source network management company that ostensibly competes with Hyperic, Zenoss, and other open-source IT management companies, but it seems that GroundWork (as well as these others) tends to be a replacement or complement to the massive proprietary offerings from HP, BMC, and others.
What has Dave been working on in his first few months as CEO?
In April, we launched our latest version of GroundWork Monitor Open Source 5.2 for Community, Professional, and now GroundWork Monitor Enterprise to meet the needs of our customer base. In 2007, GroundWork saw customers with distributed, enterprise-class deployments increase to nearly 60 percent of our customer base. Nearly a third of GroundWork’s subscriber base upgraded to enterprise-class subscriptions. Additionally, in Q1 of 2008, we signed on some new key customers, such as Cap Gemini, Pioneer Hi-Bred, University of Akron and National Bank of Belgium.
Interesting. How has this move into the enterprise affected your work with other open-source projects, specifically Nagio? I’ve seen some announcements from you and Nagios over the past few months; can you clarify your relationship with Nagios and some of the other open-source projects out there?
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