From: "Brian Weaver" <weave@www.opennms.org>
To: <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Announcement: OpenNMS.org & Project Bluebird
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:56:11 -0500

Project Bluebird / OpenNMS.org - The Next Generation of Enterprise
Management

Join the revolution! For the past year the OpenNMS team has been building
the next generation enterprise management platform. Why? Because the
enterprise management marketplace is controlled by large hardware vendors
that promote decade old solutions to their technology starved customers. The
only way to modernize the marketplace dominated by industry goliaths is to
change the rules. It's time to put the power back into the hands of the
community!

The Bluebird project is a ground up solution to modern enterprise management
problems. Using modern technologies like JAVA, XML, ODBC, and distributed
computing, OpenNMS is building a fully distributed open management
architecture. Bluebird is designed to be a distributed system where
discovery, capability polling, and availability data is collected
autonomously from distributed locations. Distributed polling provides a
fault tolerant system where disconnected pollers can still collect local
data and later collate information with one or more master stations when the
network recovers.

The master station consolidates data from the various distributed pollers
and provides availability reporting using business views. The graphical
interfaces for both users and administrators are written in pure Java 2 for
maximum portability.