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RE: [cosmos-dev] Oliver Action Item - Elevator Pitch
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Oliver,
2PM Wednesday (half hour before the architecture call) works for me.
Don
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[mailto:cosmos-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Oliver E Cole
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:03 PM
To: Cosmos Dev
Cc: Judy Schramm
Subject: Re: [cosmos-dev] Oliver Action Item - Elevator Pitch
So far, it looks like Wed Mar 21 at 2PM EDT. Chris? Don?
This is an excellent start. Thanks. We still have to distill into an
elevator speech and I will drive towards that in the conference call. I
notice how you cleverly avoided the subject of an elevator pitch by
saying "and a roadmap toward the remaining work" ;)
Excellent go at the slides other than your cowardly ducking of that
one subject.
In the following, I sound certain because it is faster to make
progress for the elevator pitch. Feel free to take constructive
objection to any particular statement either privately or to the mailing
list. This discussion will continue on the phone call.......
The June software delivery is a toy monitoring system that people can
hook up their own data collector, repository and user interface. The
toy is not planned to mature to a usable solution. The charter says
that we can't mature it. Do we accept this or do we want to change the
charter? Sorry about the word toy and we certainly wouldn't call it
that in public.....
So, it isn't going to be a monitoring solution without some adopter
putting in lot's of effort and noone anticipates an adopter doing that
as far as our headlights go (or do one of you plan on doing that?).
So, the raison d'etre for COSMOS is either
i) some software parts of COSMOS that you all are thinking of
using, or
ii) the specifications developed during COSMOS.
Craig has been pretty clear that he is interested in where SML/CML
intersects with monitoring and doesn't have specific plans to use any
software. I *think* Chris likes the overall architecture, so can
leverage the expertise in COSMOS for internal product development. I
*think* that Don is kinda the same. I *think* that IBM is aware that
open source is coming to "monitoring" over time, and wants to be part of
the "crew" that gets this done, but has no specific plans to incorporate
any of the results of COSMOS into the IBM product line.
OCS has some monitoring initiatives going on that we are trying to
leverage to a business case, and will take bits and pieces of eclipse
(mostly tptp and cosmos) when (?) we can solidify the business case. I
am hoping that this solidification occurs in the next couple of
months....
If the above is true, then the major "benefit" for COSMOS is to
distill industry experience and "best practices" into an actual
executable example/testbed. There are two aspects to this:
i) COSMOS is starting from "scratch" so that compatibility and reuse
of IBM/CA/Compuware/GroundWork code does not impede doing "the right
thing", and
ii) having participation from many different vendors, many divergent
brains are good.
The purpose of the COSMOS developed software, then, is to
demonstrate a monitoring architecture of the future.
??
Chris, Don, can you make the call on the 21st?
--oec
Craig Thomas wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> Thanks for pulling this together.
>
> With regard to meeting logistics, here are my preferences:
>
> 1. Mon, 19-Mar, 2pm EDT/11am PDT
> 2. Wed, 21-Mar, 2pm EDT/11am PDT
> 3. Wed, 21-Mar, 4pm EDT/1pm PDT
>
> Here's a start at the elevator pitch requirements from my end...
>
> As a constituent of the users of the June delivery of COSMOS, here is
> what I would like to be able to present to the executives here at
> GroundWork (in no particular order):
>
> * Explanation of the state of implementation in June, and a roadmap
> toward the remaining work.
> * Overview of the Eclipse COSMOS community, including an
> understanding of the level of resource commitment from the
> participants.
> * Status of SML and CML standards, including an understanding of
the
> ways (in addition to Eclipse COSMOS) that these standards are
> being adopted.
> * Adopter's guide for the June release. This would include just
> enough documentation to allow GroundWork to estimate the work
> needed to integrate a new data collector, a new repository, and a
> simplistic user interface.
>
> With this information, I could inform the executive team of progress,
> let them understand how other companies in the community have
> supported the work, and propose continued or increased commitment to
> the community.
>
> The first bullet, the "state of implementation", could be served by
> pictures, one with some boxes grayed out to indicate work beyond June,
> and one or more showing the gray boxes gaining color over subsequent
> release points.
>
> That last bullet, the "Adopter's guide", would just be a set of
> references to the documentation we are already planning for the
> components in the release. I'm not picturing anything extensive or
> fancy here.
>
> Hope that's the kind of thing you were looking for. If not, please let
> me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Craig.
>
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