Six open source project sponsors last 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 vendor. The OMC proposes its members develop common methods of collecting, sharing and reporting on management data collected across enterprise networks.
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