1. Vendors present new Web management spec.
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WEB services , *INFORMATION technology , *INTEGRATED circuits , *COMPUTER input-output equipment , *APPLICATION software , *COMPUTER industry - Abstract
The article reports that a group of vendors led by Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Computer Corp., and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. late last week published a specification for using Web services to manage a range of IT infrastructure elements. The Web Services-Management specification is intended to help IT reduce the cost and complexity of managing hardware ranging from chips and handheld devices to data center servers. The specification is designed to exploit Web services as a common communications mechanism to conduct a variety of management tasks.
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- 2004