ADVISORY/DMTF To Host Networld+Interop Birds of a Feather Session on Integrating Management Tools Using Web Standards.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 1998--The Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force, Inc., Portland, OR, www.dmtf.org) An industry consortium founded in 1992 that is involved with the development, support and maintenance of management standards for PCs. Its goal is to reduce the cost and complexity of PC management. ) will host a Birds of a Feather Birds Of a Feather - (BOF) (From the saying "Birds of a feather flock together") An informal discussion group, scheduled on a conference program or formed ad hoc, to consider a specific issue or subject. (BOF) session on Web-Based Enterprise Management (standard, system management) Web-Based Enterprise Management - (WBEM) A DMTF management standard using the Common Information Model to represent systems, applications, networks, devices and other managed components; developed to unify the management of distributed computing (WBEM) and the use of DMTF standards at Networld+Interop on Wednesday, October 21, 1998, in Atlanta. The BOF session, "Integrating Management Tools Using Web Standards," will be led by Winston Bumpus, President of the DMTF, and Jim Turner, WBEM Marketing Working Group Chairman, and will focus on WBEM and the use of the eXtensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. (XML) with the Common Information Model (CIM). All Networld+Interop trade show attendees are invited to attend this session. WHAT: DMTF Birds of a Feather session "Integrating Management Tools Using Web Standards." Emerging standards such as CIM (Common Information Model) from the DMTF and XML from the W3C introduce a new era for integration of enterprise management tools. Come participate in this BOF to discuss product interoperability between major computing technology vendors and the use of Web standards to integrate enterprise management applications. WHEN: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 TIME: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm WHERE: Networld+Interop trade show, Georgia World Congress Center The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 1.4 million ft2 (130,000 m2) and hosts more than a million visitors each year. , Level Two West, Room 267W |
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