Ev en large enterprises are using ope n source management applications. Open source management applications have been getting a fair amount of attention over the past few months, and it isn’t just the startups and smaller businesses using them.

In this blog post, I wanted to cover some other recent news from a couple of general purpose open source management applications used to manage diverse environments. Just last week, I blogged about Canonical’s plans for their Landscape Dedicated Server designed to make it easier for companies to manage Ubuntu deployments.

It isn’t just the vendors talking about open source management tools. On May, 26th Forrester released a study about Open Source IT Management Tools that focuses on their use within enterprises of all sizes. Network World did a pretty good job of covering this report if you want more details, but here’s a quick quote from the Network World article:

Zenoss is another open source management application, and according to Michael Cote from RedMonk, “Zenoss has worked since 2005 to develop an open source IT management stack that excels in monitoring a data center’s infrastructure layer. ” They released a new version of their Zenoss Core and Zenoss Enterprise with some new features and improvements in June 2009. It works across a company’s entire infrastructure to make sure all systems and apps are performing at their peak. Lisa Hoover from OStatic calls Zenoss Enterprise “a Swiss Army Knife of assorted monitoring tools. “

According to their press release new features included: Normalization of Metrics Across Heterogeneous Technologies, Scalable Secure Monitoring of Linux/Unix Servers, Monitoring of Internal or External Web Services, VMware vSphere 4 Support,, and mor e.