Desktop management is all about reducing costs.
The DMTF is a cooperative industrywide effort that began in 1992. Two years later, it delivered the DMI 1.0 specification, which has since become incorporated in a wide range of products. To further the desktop's integration into enterprise management, the DMTF last September created a special subcommittee to define a common information model based on object-oriented technologies. The benefit is that users will be able to create an encompassing management schema based on DMI, as well as established network management standards, such as SNMP and CMIP, he says. Victor Raisys, lead product manager for systems management marketing at Microsoft, said the Redmond, Wash.-based company was backing the DMTF standards for precisely those reasons.