Convergence Emergence

摘要

Web services are notoriously complex. Toss in the overlap between the two big management standards governing them, and the confusion grows. Cooperation among some industry heavyweights, however, promises to go a long way toward simplifying the next generation of Web services management standards. Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Microsoft are attempting to smooth out the conflicts between OASIS' (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) WSDM (Web Services Distributed Management) and DMTF's (Distributed Management Task Force) WS-Management, by working to combine these standards. Responding to customers' appeals for simplification, the four vendors released a joint white paper in March that calls for a single interoperable standard.