Posted by: Daniel Nelson on Jun 25, 2008
I spent most of last week in hotter-than-the-sun Las Vegas at the
HP Software Universe trade show. Here are some quick observations:
- Hewlett Packard Software is all about the data center. Really. All they talk about is making data centers run more efficiently – from test to deployment to performance metrics. Up and down the stack. It was nice to see such a big company have such a singular focus. There is no confusion in the HP ranks as to what their goal is.
- As for web application servers that attendees used, WebLogic, WebSphere and Jboss were all about equally represented. Only one attendee we talked to was on Oracle OAS. Also, very few of the WebLogic prospects we talked to were on release 9.2 or 10. Most of them were on 8.1. I would have thought more companies would have migrated up by now.
- The HP staff was pretty awesome. Lots of engineers from HP roaming around and looking at what new technology their partners had to offer. We must have talked to 8 different engineers from the Opsware group alone that wanted to learn more about what we do – and they were just as forthcoming in helping us with the questions we had about OpsWare. (Disclosure: Phurnace is coming out with an integration to Server Automation soon – that’s one of the reasons that we were at the show).
- Finally, the Palazzo and Venetian are pretty swank.
In Server Automation, Opsware, HP
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