Hi Sean,
I've been starting working with BigBrother in 2001 and I followed up with Hobbit/Xymon.
This software is unique in flexibility and monitoring and helped a lot my daily job. What makes it so great about monitoring is its alarm management feature: displaying only what goes wrong (or might go wrong soon) and hiding what's running fine (because we don't care of what's running fine). I'm surprised to see other monitoring software still don't think monitoring this way: they keep displaying nice graphs in beautiful colors and important alarms are lost in flows of useless SNMP queries. Those tools are at best "statistics gathering" tools and I found no one reaching the level of BB/xymon.
You've been the one who got this smart idea of doing monitoring this way, the one to implement it and make it available worldwide. Thank you very very very much for that.
Good luck for the future and I'm confident you'll find your way. I hope it'll cross Xymon's way....
Cheers, Francois.