OStatic

Hyperic, an open source web infrastructure management software provider, has been in the news lately. The company?s flagship product, Hyperic HQ, was a finalist in the 23rd Annual CODiE Awards. Hyperic HQ specializes in monitoring applications for IT departments, and the company recently announced test results showing Hyperic HQ doing very large scale monitoring in conjunction with Sun's MySQL database. OStatic checked in with Stacey Schneider, Senior Director of Marketing for Hyperic, for thoughts on how open source software can play a part in highly scalable monitoring deployments.