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Create open source network crawler. Offer as a free service. ??? Profit!

Matthew Aslett, November 19, 2007 @ 11:13 am ET

Both Dana Blankenhorn and Dan Farber have written posts today about Paglo, a new “search engine for IT” launched today. Based on open source tools, Paglo offers a spider that crawls a user’s network enabling them to search for network problems that require ad hoc investigation. The service is offered free of charge and users [...]

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Introducing the CAOS Research Service

Raven Zachary, August 22, 2006 @ 6:54 pm ET

I am pleased the announce today the we have officially launched the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service and the first CAOS Report - “Stack and Deliver,” covering the open source stack provider space. For more details on these announcements, I invite you to take a look at the two press releases [...]

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