After his Dynamic Systems Initiative update talk, I talked with Ed Anderson on his way to man the “kissing booth” (Q & A), the affable director of strategic marketing for Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative. He seemed to have a good grasp of the low-level stuff I’ve been hunting around for, esp. some clarification on WS-Management.<\/p>\n
As I said yesterday<\/a>, the key to successful systems management protocol is ubiquity: the more silos, devices, platforms, and applications that a protocol can interact with, the better. I raised the concern that WS-Management would be available only in Vista, and suggested that the best bet for it’s over-all success would be backporting it to XP, 2000, and other Windows versions. The thinking being that people don’t upgrade as rapidly as you might want, so WS-Management would be waiting for Vista to become the primary Windows deployment.<\/p>\n Well, long story short, Ed said that there were plans to backport WS-Management to past Windows versions. Not Win95, he joked, but the other major versions. There wasn’t a definite timeline or release strategy, but the fact that they’re thinking and planning on it is encouraging for WS-Management.<\/p>\n Now, as I said previously, I just need to dig deeper into WS-Management and see how well it would technically be at providing a standardized systems management protocol. Comparing it to CIM and WSDM would, of course, be excellent as well.<\/p>\n Disclaimer:<\/b> Microsoft and IBM (who’re the WSDM folks) are a client.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Technorati Tags: conferences<\/a>, enterprisesoftware<\/a>, microsoft<\/a>, microsoftmanagementsummit<\/a>, mms2006<\/a>, systemsmangement<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After his Dynamic Systems Initiative update talk, I talked with Ed Anderson on his way to man the “kissing booth” (Q & A), the affable director of strategic marketing for Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative. He seemed to have a good grasp of the low-level stuff I’ve been hunting around for, esp. some clarification on WS-Management. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}