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-#use wml::std::box
-#include "$(ROOT)/.wml/template.inc" section=about subsection=none
-<!--#include virtual="/parsed/logger.html" -->
+<PAGE AUTHOR = "Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>"
+ PAGE = "welcome">
-<H1>About RRDtool</H1>
-
-
-#<vspace 10>
-#<box bdcolor=#000000 bgcolor=#f0f0ff>
-#<H2*>RRDtool Up Close and Personal</H2*>
-#At the end of September and in early October, there are two opportunities to learn more about
-#RRDtool:
-#
-#<UL>
-#<LI>I will be leading a RRDtool workshop @ CAIDA (San Diego) from September
-#29th to September 30th 1999 (<A
-#HREF="http://iec.caida.org/workshop/9909/">iec.caida.org/workshop/9909/</A>)</LI>
-#<LI>On October the 4th I will give a Talk on RRDtool @ NANOG-17 in Montreal
-#(<A HREF="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9910/">www.nanog.org/mtg-9910/</A>)</LI>
-#</UL>
-#</box>
-
-#<vspace 10>
+<H1>About RRDtool</H1>
+<H2>Logging & Graphing</H2>
-<H2>RRDtool</H2>
+<p>Some call it the industry standard data logging and graphing application.
+Others use it to write their very own full custom monitoring scripts.
+Most people will probably get in touch with RRDtool through some
+<a href="$(ROOT)/rrdworld/">third party</a> monitoring applications. You
+may have seen graphs like this:</p>
-<P>If you know MRTG, you can think of RRDtool as a reimplementation of MRTGs
-graphing and logging features. Magnitudes faster and more flexible than you ever
-thought possible</P>
+<p><img src="btdmd8.png"/></p>
<P>RRD is the Acronym for Round Robin Database. RRD is a system to store and
display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature,
server load average). It stores the data in a very compact way that will not
-expand over time, and it presents useful graphs by processing the data to
-enforce a certain data density. It can be used either via simple wrapper
-scripts (from shell or Perl) or via frontends that poll network devices and
-put a friendly user interface on it.</P>
+expand over time, and it can create beautiful graphs. It can be used
+via simple shell scripts or as a perl module.</P>
-<H2>Get IT</H2>
+<H2>Download</H2>
-<P>RRDtool is available for <A HREF="pub/">download</A> from this site.
+<P>RRDtool is available for <A HREF="download.en.html">download</A> from this site.
Currently it compiles on a number of different Unix platforms as well as on
-NT. No binaries are officially provided at this point in time.</P>
-
-<H2>Project -- Happy Tobi</H2>
+Windows.</P>
-<P>You like RRDtool? <A HREF="$(ROOT)/license.html">There is a simple way to show your appreciation</A>.</P>
+<h2>Upgrading from 1.0.x?</h2>
-<H2>The Future</H2>
+<p>If you are curious about the new features in RRDtool 1.2. Check out the
+<a href="newin12.txt">RRDTOOL 1.2 NEWS</a> page.</p>
-<P>RRDtool is not a full replacement for MRTG, as it does not implement all
-the frontend and data aquisition features of MRTG. But it is an excellent
-base for building tools which work much like MRTG only better. Eventually,
-MRTG-3 will be built on top of RRDtool. You do not have to wait though. If you
-can program yourselfe you can use RRDtool right out of the box or if you don't program
-you can use one of several <A HREF="frontends/">frontends</A> which use RRDtool.</P>
+<H2>Sponsorship and Appreciators</H2>
-<P>If you want to stay with MRTG-2 go into the contrib folder of the latest release and take a close look at
-<B>14all</B>.</P>
+<P>You like RRDtool? You want show your appreciation? You want to sponsor
+future development or a particular new feature? Check out our <A
+HREF="sponsor.en.html">Sponsorship and Appreciation</a> page.</P>