{"id":1328,"date":"2008-04-27T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T16:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2008-04-27T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T16:10:48","slug":"off-to-microsoft-management-summit-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/04\/27\/off-to-microsoft-management-summit-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to Microsoft Management Summit 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/134935979\/\" title=\"MMS 2006: Bob Muglia Keynote by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/46\/134935979_6bd760c3be.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"MMS 2006: Bob Muglia Keynote\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mms-2008.com\">MMS 2008<\/a> later tonight.I&#8217;ll be there for the first part of this week. I&#8217;ve enjoyed following Microsoft&#8217;s IT Management strategy over the years, and even more closely since being at RedMonk. Why? As Microsoft is wont to do, they tend to start from scratch when getting into a vertical &#8211; here, IT Management, obviously. This makes for unique, and therefor interesting for an observer like myself, approaches.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, don&#8217;t get me wrong, Microsoft&#8217;s management stuff has been around for a long time now &#8211; they&#8217;ve even gone through re-branding! The point is more that they go about things a little differently, which is fun to pay attention to if only because of that.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how that Dynamic Systems Initiative plan is doing this year &#8211; particularly the progress in SML-land and, ever the bug-bear of Microsoft IT Management, how support for multiple platforms is going.<\/p>\n<p>For a snap-shot of the state of affairs, <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/11\/28\/microsoft-teched-it-forum-2007-wrap-up-and-other-videos\/\">check out the RedMonkTV videos from IT Forum 2007 last winter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer:<\/b> Microsoft is a client, and paying for travel and expenses to MMS.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/mms2008\" rel=\"tag\">mms2008<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/LAS\" rel=\"tag\">LAS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to MMS 2008 later tonight.I&#8217;ll be there for the first part of this week. I&#8217;ve enjoyed following Microsoft&#8217;s IT Management strategy over the years, and even more closely since being at RedMonk. Why? As Microsoft is wont to do, they tend to start from scratch when getting into a vertical &#8211; here, IT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-conferences","category-systems-management"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}