Opmantek vs SolarWinds

Opmantek Ltd. is a developer and promoter of open source and commercial open source network management, monitoring and auditing software. The company sponsors the open source projects NMIS and Open-AudIT. There are 55,000 businesses around the world that are using one or more Opmantek products. Both NMIS and Opmantek have won multiple awards including Australian Company of the Year from AAAI Opmantek was formed and founded by current Chairman and CEO Danny Maher through the acquisition of the intellectual property to NMIS. Upon acquiring the intellectual property Mr Maher initiated a successful capital raise on the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board and successfully received a grant from the Gold Coast City Council to establish the corporate headquarters at the Gold Coast, Australia. Shortly after formation, Mr Maher recruited NMIS' founder Keith Sinclair from Cisco Systems as the company's CTO.

SolarWinds Inc. develops enterprise information technology infrastructure management software for IT professionals. In 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital and Insight Venture Partners. SolarWinds completed its initial public offering of $112.5 million in 2009. In 2012, SolarWinds' total revenue reached $269 million. In June 2014, the company purchased the Swedish web-monitoring company Pingdom.