Orbitz Open Sources Tools To Manage Large Distributed Applications

mjasay writes "CNET is reporting that on Monday Orbitz will announce the creation and release of two open-source projects, Extremely Reusable Monitoring API (ERMA) and Graphite, both 'part of a Complex Event Processing system designed to monitor large distributed applications, analyze the data that is gathered and display that data in real-time graphs.' Though there were hints of these projects at JavaOne earlier this year, Monday's announcement adds significant context to the work Orbitz has done to create two highly compelling open-source projects, whose applicability extends far beyond the travel industry. In particular, it highlights Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst's vision that enterprise IT needs to open up and collaborate. However, as Orbitz's development team notes, it's easier said than done to participate in open source, especially when creating projects rather than simply contributing to existing projects."

Re:Commercial competition?

[Miniluv]

No it does not. ERMA could be used to instrument your software so that it can more effectively be monitored with either solution. Graphite is just a graphing tool for large volumes of numeric data which occurs in a time series.

Re:are you guys still on jdk 1.4?

[Noke]

I have an excuse. We use DB2 Connect (v8) on an HPUX platform (11i). Guess what? DB2 Connect v8 isn't certified to work with anything above JDK 1.4.x. In order to have support for JDK 1.5, you need to upgrade to DB2 Connect v9. But DB2 Connect v9 isn't certified to work on HPUX 11i. You need up upgrade the OS.

With a critical enterprise application, going down that upgrade path is costly and risky.

So there are actually lots of excuses especially when you are in a large enterprise environment.

Datacenter Neighbors

[Anonymous Coward]

If it weren't such a huge violation of security-through-obscurity, perhaps someone might point out that Orbitz and Slashdot are neighbors in some hypothetical datacenter which may be located somewhere in the central USA. I've certainly never been there to witness such juxtaposition of Internet real estate; If I had I definitely wouldn't point it out, particularly on such a public forum as this.

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