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Microsoft opens up to Linux for System Center, but on a very short leash

Today Microsoft announced its System Center's ability to deliver automated management across heterogeneous IT environments, such as UNIX and Linux, as Sam Ramji notes on his blog. Great news, I suppose, in that Microsoft increasingly understands that it's not the center of the universe anymore.

The agent infrastructure Microsoft is building to interoperate with UNIX and Linux is built leveraging industry standards and open source such as WS-Management and OpenPegasus....It simply makes great technical and business sense to cooperate with the OpenPegasus community to build upon industry-standards based cross-platform technology.

Indeed it does, Sam, which is why … Read more