[ale] NetCool vs competitors

[James P. Kinney III]

> Some of the stuff you might want to look at to get ideas:
>
> NetCool - commercial
> OpenView - commercial
> Big Brother - formerly open source, now closed for commercial use
> nagios - open source
> Hobbit - open source
> Munin - open source
> Cacti - open source
> Zabbix - GPL, but politely asks that commercial users pay
> opennms - open source
>
> later,
> chris

Left out one based on earlier work by Big Brother. It's called Big Sister.
http://bigsister.sourceforge.net/