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Sowing the seeds of performance monitoring


By David Worthington
February 27, 2009 — 
David is using open source to take on Goliath. On Tuesday, dynaTrace Software, a Java and .NET performance solution maker, launched a community portal where customers can share plug-ins.

The portal site also includes documentation and best practices, code samples, a knowledge base, and technology tutorials and training. However, the open-source plug-ins are the "big story," said Eric Senunas, senior director of marketing and communications at dynaTrace.

The plug-ins are built to the OSGi 3.0 specification, which provides a component model for the Java Virtual Machine to make Java more modular. The plug-ins work with the dynaTrace 3.0 server, which was released earlier this month.

dynaTrace 3.0 includes Eclipse-based tooling for developing plug-ins, and a deployment architecture for installing components locally or across geographically distributed systems.

Some plug-ins are performance monitors, sending alerts when thresholds are exceeded, while others are task schedulers, said senior performance architect Andreas Grabner.

While the plug-ins are licensed under the BSD license, the server product remains proprietary, Senunas noted.

"The strategy is to augment the complementary products without using resources that are developing the core product," said Jean-Pierre Garbani, a Forrester Research vice president. "In technology adoption, one of the obstacles to overcome is the need for these complementary inputs that, given the diversity of the market, are too numerous to be all developed and qualified by the core team."

He explained that dynaTrace is accomplishing two things by seeding open-source plug-ins: creating a framework that removes the need for complements; and using the integrations to sell its core product without incurring the cost of actually developing them. Having a community that can share plug-ins also removes an obstacle to adoption, he said.

"I see this approach as spreading more and more among the small vendors as a way to effectively compete against the larger ones, especially if the small vendors pool together in partnerships," Garbani observed. Other licensed software vendors, including NetIQ, Klocwork and Tideway have adopted a similar strategy.

Open-source plug-ins will help dynaTrace customers do more with less, said Senunas. "Customers want to get rid of commercial monitoring vendors. It is less expensive using open source."


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