Management MonogatariTales of Resource Management from Mark A. CarlsonLandscape of Management Standards- May 26, 2006 Any time you are exploring a new area its good to have a landscape of the territory. I have recently been making extensive use of Google Earth (now that it works on a Mac) to find my way around when I travel. For the past year I have been a co-chair for a cross Standards Development Organization (SDO) group called SCRM (pronounced Scrum as in Rugby). It's full name is Standards Development Organizations Collaboration on Networked Resources Management and it has had good participation from...http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/landscape_of_management_standards WS-Management spec available publicly- May 2, 2006 DMTF Releases Preliminary version for review Last week the DMTF released the WS-Managment specification for preliminary review. This was the culmination of about 9 months of work by the DMTF to refine the work submitted by Microsoft, Sun and other authors last summer into an industry standard. Yet to come is the specification to map the Common Information Model onto this transport using XML schema and WSDL fragments (stay tuned). For more information, there is a fact sheet and a press release.http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/ws_management_spec_available_publicly |