I met with some of the folks from Hyperic up at LinuxWorld San Francisco yesterday. They have just released the latest version of HQ 3.1, and won an award for best systems management software at the show. HQ is used at a growing number of companies including the likes of eHarmony, Ogilvey advertising and we also license their SIGAR technology at MySQL. What's unique about HQ is that the SIGAR technology is fully I met with some of the folks from Hyperic up at LinuxWorld San Francisco yesterday. They have just released the latest version of HQ 3.1, and won an award for best systems management software at the show. HQ is used at a growing number of companies including the likes of eHarmony, Ogilvey advertising and we also license their SIGAR technology at MySQL. What’s unique about HQ is that the SIGAR technology is fully extensible so its easy to add new types of resources that can be monitored. The latest version adds the ability to manage ColdFusion, Jetty, TomCat6 along side the rest of the stack. And although HQ is best known for monitoring opoen source LAMP stack applications, it’s equally at home monitoring things like IIS, Windows, Oracle, etc. Since many companies run a mix of open source and closed source this seems like a good strategy. They’ve also spruced up the user interface and added new capabilities to deal with alerts.Hyperic is an impressive team and they continue to set a high bar in systems management. Open Source