Archive for August, 2007

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

First Multi-Vendor IT Management Data (CMDB) Release

The CMDB Federation (CMDBf) working group has announced it has published it first release of an industry-wide specification for sharing information between Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) and other management data repositories (MDRs), such as asset management systems and service desks.
The CMDBf was founded in April 2006, and today consists of industry leaders BMC Software, CA, [...]

Friday, August 10th, 2007

IBM And Microsoft Continue To battle Over SOA Standard

The battle continues between Microsoft and IBM over the right open standard approach to service-oriented architectures (SOA).  This article from CNET discusses the continuing struggle to agree on a open SOA format.  Both Microsoft and IBM are major players in ECMA, each one supports a different format, IBM  favors
OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO-certified, open-source standard. [...]

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