Excellent report! I read it quickly and plan to spend a good hour with it. Thank you el reg and freeform

I wanted to bring to your and your reader's attention a discussion happening now at the reinvigorated open management consortium about how various systems management vendors (some open source, some closed, some mixed) are trying to find a common agent thateveryone can agree, and standardize, on. It's in early stages, but if successful, I believe it could go some ways towards alleviating the fragmentation that so many respondents struggle with every dayaccording to the report.

Here's the link: http://www.openmanagement.org/community/monitoring/omc_open_agent?view=discussions