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Zenoss Announces Sponsorship of Twisted, an Open Source Python-Powered Programming Engine
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ANNAPOLIS, MD, May 9 / MARKET WIRE/ --
Zenoss Inc., a leading provider of open
source network, systems and application management software, today
announced its Gold Sponsorship of the newly formed non-profit Twisted
Software Foundation (TSF), which provides a venue for individuals and
organizations to contribute to the development of open source technologies.
"As early as two years ago, many people still questioned the use of open
source software in the enterprise," said Glyph Lefkowitz, founder of
Twisted. "Forward-thinking companies like Zenoss are proving that through
collaboration and community involvement open source software is not only
ready for, but can excel in, an enterprise environment. The Twisted project
enables companies like Zenoss to benefit from the collective input of a
highly technical and savvy community."
Twisted is an event-driven network-programming framework written in Python,
a dynamic object-oriented programming language. Companies and individuals
have the opportunity to join the TSF sponsor forum, dedicated to discussing
top-priority issues and features. By allowing high-profile Twisted users to
cast their "votes" on the direction of the project, TSF aims to bring
additional momentum to an already active and vocal community. In doing so,
TSF provides businesses with a means of engaging in development
conversations in a way that is meaningful for them.
Twisted provides the foundation for Zenoss' scalable, agent-less
collectors. It allows Zenoss daemons to talk to hundreds of enterprise
systems simultaneously, with low overheads, using standard protocols like
SNMP. In addition, Twisted provides the internal communications between
distributed collectors.
"At Zenoss our software lives and breathes Twisted, and as a commercial
open source company we feel it's important to give back to the projects we
use," said Erik Dahl, Co-Founder and CTO of Zenoss, Inc. "Last year we
began a dialogue with Glyph regarding ways to help the project, and now the
idea has come to fruition with the founding of the TSF. We are proud to
have played a role in the foundation's birth and we look forward to
contributing to it as it grows."
For more information on Zenoss, please visit http://www.zenoss.com.
About Zenoss, Inc.
Zenoss Inc. delivers open source IT management solutions to organizations
across the globe. Flagship product Zenoss Core is a complete network
monitoring and systems management platform that discovers networked IT
resources, monitors them for performance and availability, and tracks
changes through a configuration management database (CMDB). One of the ten
most active projects on SourceForge.Net, Zenoss software was downloaded
over 350,000 times in 2007. Recent product accolades include Network
World's Clear Choice Award, Enterprise Open Source Magazine Readers' Choice
Award, and a nomination for Best Technical Design in the SourceForge 2007
Community Choice Awards. Zenoss' customers include some of the world's
largest corporations as well as Federal and State government agencies.
Zenoss, Inc. is privately held and headquartered in Annapolis, MD. Download
Zenoss Core free at http://www.zenoss.com/download.
About Twisted
Twisted is an event-based engine for Internet applications, written in
Python. Twisted supports TCP, SSL and TLS, UDP, Unix sockets, multicast,
and serial ports. It also includes a Web server, an SMTP/POP3 server, a
telnet server, an SSH server, an IRC server, a DNS server, and of course
APIs for creating new protocols. It supports integration with GTK+ 2, Qt,
Tkinter, wxPython, Mac OS X (PyObjC) and Win32 event loops.
http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/
Zenoss Press Contact:
SSPR
Tony Keller
719.634.8279tkeller@sspr.com
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