Microsoft and Industry Partners Submit WS-Management Specification

today at enterprise management world, microsoft corp. announced that it, along with advanced micro devices inc. (amd), bmc software inc., computer associates, dell inc., fujitsu-siemens computers, intel corporation, nec corp., novell inc., sun microsystems inc., symantec corp. and wbem solutions inc., has submitted the web services for management (ws-management) specification to the distributed management task force inc. (dmtf) for further refinement and finalization as a web services-based management standard. ws-management provides a common manageability protocol that allows interoperability across heterogeneous hardware and operating system environments. the announcement was also made by bob muglia, senior vice president of the windows serverâ„¢ division, in his keynote address at the m...