DCML

Hello,

To follow up on Heather's question at the last conference call, I 
thought the concluding paragraph from an InformationWeek article to be 
interesting.

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15306189
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Standards make the most sense when it comes to the data-center 
management tools needed to tie together servers, storage, and networking 
into the much-anticipated utility computing model, Haff says. The 
management software available today from HP, IBM, Sun, and others can do 
high-level management--checking CPU use and whether the operating system 
is up or down, for example--but the ability to dynamically reallocate 
system resources across different server platforms or create virtual 
servers requires a level of integration and sophistication not yet 
available from a single management tool. Says Haff, "None of the systems 
vendors can manage third-party products with the same thoroughness and 
depth they can manage their own products."
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John DeCarlo, The MITRE Corporation, My Views Are My Own
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