Commercial aspect of Nagios - Open discussion

Ethan Galstad

Nagios Creator and Lead Developer
Ethan Galstad boasts over nine years experience in open source software development.

Since creating Nagios (formerly known as NetSaint) in 1999, the open source monitoring system has grown in popularity to an estimated global user base of over 100,000.

He founded Nagios Enterprises, LLC in 2007 to provide commercial services and products for and complementary to Nagios.
Ethan currently serves on the Advisory Board for Splunk, Inc. - a technology startup based in San Francisco.  He also is a member of the Open Source Council founded by Groundwork Open Source, Inc. - a San Francisco based provider of enterprise IT management solutions.