Addressing the fragmented state of personal computer systems management, Intel Corp, Microsoft Corp, Novell Inc, Sun Microsystems Inc’s SunConnect and SynOptics Communications Inc came together in Washington yesterday to announce that they are working together to address iAPX-86-based workstation management issues, specifically resource management, configuration management, performance analysis, software monitoring and security. The group intends to specify information that can be integrated into a variety of network management environments. Microsoft, Intel, Novell and SynOptics are working on an open, common set of application programming interfaces that will enable management of individual micros on a network, providing a reference implementation and an open architecture. The planned reference implementation will be distributed free and SunConnect will be integrating the information into a management system.
