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Article: Open-source management arrives; Vendors address user pain points, integration, usability and support for open-source management applications.(Open Management Consortium )
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- Network World
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- May 12, 2006
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Byline: Denise Dubie
Six open-source companies and project sponsors this week founded an industry organization to elevate the status of open-source
management tools in enterprise IT shops.
The Open Management Consortium (OMC) says it will develop standards to simplify the job of integrating disparate open-source
management applications in an effort to make managing large enterprise networks with open-source tools easier for users. Most
companies use several management tools, but the majority of proprietary products available today require extensive integration
for them to share data - even when they're from the same ...