FireScope seeks portlet market

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FireScope, whose proprietary Business Service Management system runs on Linux, is at LinuxWorld this week pushing the idea of a market for portlets. The company released a Software Development Kit that lets developers integrate their own software with the Firescope interface, or blend data from other applications to generate views into IT operations. As with every proprietary vendor working with Linux, marketing director Ryan Counts was ready to answer the question, if youre not open source what are you doing here? So when developing the product it made sense to focus on Linux. You won’t have admin access to the box, but through the interface you can upgrade it, with an auto update system," Counts said.

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