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I was testing out Zoho Writer and export this morning and needed some content to play around with. I came up with some quick advice for Systems Management 2.0 companies, projects, and people. I think it make a nice, short post:

1. Focus and sell. Best of breed and reliance on commodified low-level monitoring and management. Hosted. Sell your strengths (duh, right?).
2. Use the web as (cheap) marketing. You can talk directly to your users. They have problems and credit cards.
3. Partner to make a suite. For example, help desks, provisioning, and virtualization.
4. Know how to talk about scaling, plan to actually do scaling.
5. Try to make an open platform. REST over SOAP if possible. Dashboards? RSS/ATOM and JavaScript Includes.
6. Bonus! Have a realistic story about The Big 4: complexity can be a strength if understood, used well, and/or hidden. Cars are better than horses.

On the topic at hand, I’m flattered that Mark (right?) picked up on and made a wikipedia entry on “The Little 4″ ;>.

Disclaimer: Zenoss, where Mark works is a client.

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