Because Rudolph and Sletten included Monitor as part of the rebuilding of its infrastructure (more on that shortly), Lamonica says it's difficult to pin an exact number on what the company paid for it. That said, GroundWork's vice president of marketing, Will Winkelstein, estimates Rudolph and Sletten's GroundWork deployment to be in the $50,000 range.
According to Winkelstein, that's typical for a GroundWork installation at a medium-sized enterprise. That figure, which he says is less than 10 percent of what a comparable HP OpenView or BMC Patrol system would cost, includes not only the monitoring software itself, but the planning, integration, and deployment of the system, he says.
Lamonica, who has worked with OpenView and Patrol in the past, says they weren't a fit for Rudolph and Sletten. "In my experience with the bigger tools, they take a long time to deploy, are expensive to deploy, and require a significant amount of resources to maintain," he explains.
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