I guess I'm in the other camp, I don't like it at all. I had to go back and look for the logo after reading your comment and I couldn't make out what it was supposed to be until I looked at the URL. Even then my brain didn't want to turn it into letters, but was bothered that the gray parts (especially the vertical parts of the 'u' and the 'n') didn't line up.

And of course since the logo is set in CSS it doesn't have alt text so I couldn't hover over it and get the company name.

That said, I am very pleased that the logo is a link back to the main company page and not to the main blog page; it's so irritating to read an article on a company blog, think "hey, I'm interested in what these folks are selling, let's visit their homepage", click on the logo and be redirected to the main page of their blog and not the company's actual web site.

I will call your digression and raise with a further digression: there really seems to be an abundance of these cloud metric startups now. It's quiet bewildering to think the trivial python scripts I wrote in '09 to gather server and application stats (tomcat) could've been the basis for one of these. If only I'd had the vision.

> If only I'd had the vision.

And the ability to execute, and the confidence to risk your livelihood.

There is still time. I don't like using any of the cloud metric services with a few exceptions, because I don't feel they are getting a large segment of the market that is undervalued: sysadmins. Most of us are on very tight budgets already, and while tools like splunk and boundary are pretty awesome visually and in the ease of use department, as soon as I start getting back the numbers I get sticker shock, especially because I want to monitor much more than seems to be the norm for their target markets.

This is one of the many reasons why I think FOSS with a support model has so much potential in the sysadmin world. Tool is FOSS, so you can use it as much as you want (no 50c per device schemes) and then if you want support or a hosted version that's what is charged for.

No one is really doing this, though there are a handful of non-foss "open-source" projects around that give you free versions with restricted feature-sets.

As a side note, I have been using Argus (http://argus.tcp4me.com/) and ELK stack to good effect.

Having those what-ifs is a sign you're got some good ideas - we'll see the right ones at the right times.

I agree.

I wonder how much the logo played into picking that name.

EDIT: Turns out, not much. Here's the story. http://www.boundary.com/blog/2013/01/the-story-of-the-bounda...

It looks nice, but a problem with that logo is that it doesn't read as "boundary". (I read it as "boundaq" at first).

I want to write it as $\partial\Omega$undary, but that looks closer to dnundary.

Exactly what I was thinking.. the blog post wasn't easy to follow but that logo....