Log Management

It does have a SOX tie-in, but does that make this a product company or more of a product/process that sells profressional services consulting?

LogRhythm's comprehensive log management and analysis software helps companies to efficiently comply with government regulations, secure their networks and optimize their IT infrastructure.

By automating the collection, organization, analysis and archival of all log data, LogRhythm enables enterprises to easily comply with log data retention regulations while simultaneously gaining valuable, timely and actionable insights into security, availability, performance and audit issues within their infrastructure.

LogRhythm is cross-platform, highly reliable and easily scalable across an enterprise. Unlike inadequate and inefficient home-grown scripts, LogRhythm provides a complete, highly efficient and easy to use solution for companies of all sizes that need to solve log collection, management and analysis challenges. With LogRhythm, companies can invest in a single, integrated solution that addresses the needs of all departments, whether their concern is security, compliance, audit or IT operational efficiency.

Log Management Highlights

* High performance, cross-platform log collection
* Centralized, scalable, & reliable log organization
* Agent-less Windows event log, syslog & flat file support
* Automated log archiving
* Fast search & recovery of archived logs

Log Analysis Highlights

* Automatic, real-time identification of important events
* Centralized analysis and correlation
* Role-based monitoring & alerting
* Easy forensic search & analysis
* Flexible & comprehensive reporting

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20071126
OpenService's InfoCenter(TM) Enterprise Information and Event Management Software Achieves Red Hat Ready Certification

As organizations increasingly rely on InfoCenter products to monitor the performance and integrity of their networks and all the critical enterprise services they deliver ...

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20090105
The Snare Server, from InterSect Alliance, is a proprietary Log Monitoring solution that builds on the open source Snare agents to provide a central audit event collection, analysis, reporting and archival system. ... The Snare Server is a Linux-based appliance, with minimal administrative overhead.

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BareTailPro
Registered Version - Only $US 35
real-time log file monitoring tool with text searching and filtering

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For oracle db, allow appliance to be a remote log archive dest.

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LogRhythm
implement kernel-level monitoring capabilities for the following features: file integrity monitoring, Process monitor, network connection monitor and the data loss defender.  C/C++ for the Linux kernel.
Windows-based.  VB.Net and C#.Net.
logging systems (i.e., Syslog, Windows Event Log)
Windows SQL Server 2000/2005
Windows AD Domain security and audit policies

SOA Registry

Systinet Registry provides a simple and standards-based means for publishing and discovering reusable business services and SOA artifacts. Systinet Registry captures all the functional and non-functional service descriptions into a centrally managed, reliable, searchable location. Fully standards-compliant, Systinet Registry provides a highly scalable, standards-based index of services and metadata, exposing a subset of SOA information for other tools and technologies to discover in operation.

Category Specific Search Engine

Slashdot article about Google Co-op.

Roll Your Own search engine.

People Management

Keeping groups and individuals focused and aligned with corporate strategy enables organizations to execute to their fullest potential. Saba® helps organizations achieve this potential by providing an integrated Human Capital Management (HCM) solution that aligns their organization, develops their people and measures both individual and organizational performance. The result is “The Aligned Enterprise”, improving productivity and operational performance across the organization.

Saba Performance Suite is a powerful solution that provides the ability to track and manage the performance of both individuals and organizations.

General Info - Positioning For Equity

Slashdot interview with a VC.

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JBoss ended up selling to Red Hat for $420M which was 28 times trailing 12 month revenue ($15M). Red Hat is a publicly held company; its shareholders and management team are clearly comfortable with the open source business model of not owning your intellectual property and valuing the company based upon unit marketshare and support and service revenue. Unit marketshare is a proxy for long term revenue because if the number is large it indicates a lot of customers; the shareholders are betting the management team can figure out how to get revenue from customers over time (ie by potentially introducing new product and services).

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In the consumer internet space, we are looking for initial adoption by consumers. In the enterprise space, we want real businesses that have evaluated the product and would be willing to buy the product if it were available.

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Most software companies consist of intellectual property (IT), but more importantly are the skills of the founders. There are many challenges both from a technical and business perspective that must be addressed by the team. So the founding team is key.

Pension Tracking

An advanced solution for pension administration, PensionPath manages the entire life cycle of pension administration, from new hire to retirement. The software also includes self-service tools that take the burden off HR while enhancing your employees’ understanding of the future value of their retirement benefits.