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Andreas Ericsson schrieb:

Sorry that I didn't review your code before asking this question. I assumed this already in my other post: Do I need merlin, as a redundant/scalable daemon between native nagios and a database? If so: What if you get users with smaller environments which won't profit of the pure merlin power?

No they won't for the first steps. We know that there are many good ideas out there to make the nagios core (scheduling, object handling and so on) better. Like the historical IPC stuff died from version 2.x to 3.x, we hope that other historical code segments will be replaced in the future. I think Ethan never thought of 20000 services environments and such a huge community 5, 7 or 10 years ago. Will say: It's not bad but it might be better.

Right.

I agree with you but both parties have one shared intent: further development.

We talked within the community part before about the pro's and con's about this step. Many of us were just a small step away from dropping all that nagios stuff. It would be easier for us to tell our boses that nagios development might be stale, using the actual release until we got another commercial alternative - but we wouldn't have one. To the grief discussion: I know I have a horrible memory for details, but I'm sure that I would remember such a discussion if I stand next to it. But does it matter? What am I interested in trouble between two business parties as a community member, wanting to see more improvements of a good project? Both has not to play each other, if they don't like each other - but when I see trademark policies growing that might lead into stress against DNS Names like our german discussion/supporting board where we are active since many years, making cost-free advertisment - I'm not amused. Protection against opensource vampires is one thing, enforce frustration to a community is another.

What do they actual have? Only a few years ago Nagios was just admins best friend and not a true accepted competiton to those expensive, non scaleable, closed source programs with a bunch of consultans just ringing with bells and whistles. I personaly never thought about incentive for business before but I would say a technology change from c coded cgis to a more open php, a function detachment between webinterface (viewing), data collection and data source (status.dat, ndo, may be merlin's db, or similar) would be a huge improvement for more development and benefits.

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