I use the popular monitoring tool Zabbix and wanted it to be able to send messages to cellphones and pagers. The obvious solution is to use one of the Internet based gateways, but that has the obvious problem of not workign when Zabbix wants to inform me about connection problems.

A while ago I wrote this article about what should happen for creating a better local market for the IT industry.
Meanwhile, I started my own company to do consultancy and support for Linux and *BSD systems.

Internet News has a rather interesting article about Open Source and traditionally closed source companies.