An indication of heightened competition in network management

When I was doing the research for the Open source network management in Google 2001 vs Google 2008 I came across the Network Monitoring Tools website run by Stanford.

Network Monitoring Tools @ SLAC 2001

Network Monitoring Tools @ SLAC 2001

Network Monitoring Tools @ SLAC 2008

Network Monitoring Tools @ SLAC 2008

I think the above images illustrates the heightened level of competition in today’s network management market rather well.