HP OpenView Alternatives

HP openview is a network management system of Hewlett Packard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_OpenView

Here are few alternatives for this...

Nagios: Open source monitoring system for mac, linux and unix platforms.

http://www.nagios.org/about/overview

OpenNMS: Open source monitoring system for linux platform.

http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Main_Page

Few more

http://www.zenoss.com/

http://www.nedi.ch/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pandora/

Network operations center (NOC)

Network operations center is a centralized management, monitoring and control over IP based networks, broadcasts and telecommunication networks.

NOC continuously examines/monitors the networks and raise automated alarm to specific users and modules as mentioned in configuration. IP based networks are monitored by using SNMP protocol (http://www.net-snmp.org/),but it also supports CORBA and other protocols.

For power and environmental devices, a middle layer device is required to let NOC communicate with these devices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_operations_center

Microsoft Outlook Alternative

Microsoft Outlook is an email client but it also has other features like calender, contact organizer, task manager etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook

Here are few alternatives for this...

Thunderbird

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Pegasus Mail

http://www.pmail.com/

Barca

http://www.pocosystems.com/home/

GMail

http://gmail.com/

Opera

http://www.opera.com/browser/

Zimbra Desktop

http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html

Pimero

http://www.pimero.com/en/

Postbox

http://www.postbox-inc.com/

Spicebird

http://www.spicebird.com/