Philippe, "searching for open source alternative" is a wrong approach. A company should
sponsor the development of a new open source tool which would match their requirements.
In the short term, this could even be more expensive than buying a commercial software.
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From: Philippe Teissier <philippe.teissier@gmail.com>
To: swinog@swinog.ch
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:43:58 PM
Subject: Re: [swinog] IP Management Tool
I have used VitalQIP (commercial, expensive, Alcatel Lucent) in my previous job (car maker IT headquarters, 200 000 IP addresses), I won't advise it either ... It's a full suite for DNS, DHCP, IP management.
Not as scalable as expected to be, bad support from the editor, quite rigid, your architecture has to adapt to their way of thinking and programming, and I must admit the programmers didn't know about network latency when they studied the scalability of the product (5 servers DNS/DHCP were oversees, more than 200ms ping each, they were never able to efficiently deal with that).
Before quitting, I was searching for an open source alternative, but as the philosophy of the company was just starting to be "open minded", they still run QIP (and bought a newer version for $$$$$) ...