Happily, both Netscape and Lotus support the idea, too. Maybe we can get this done without the usual wrangling. For you futurists, this is the beginning of a new generation of XML applications. You'll soon see other valuable extensions for directories, for industry-specific solutions, and more. For you capitalists, this is a big, big deal.
Large corporations spend millions of dollars each year manually installing software.
There's no better way to lower the total cost of ownership than to automate this process. That's why you'll see a quick adoption of OSD by Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Novell, Microsoft, McAfee and other companies with systems management products. And why corporate administrators will jump all over this spec to automate software distribution over their intranets. We're discussing the topic right now in my Berst Alerts forum. Click the link in the sidebar to jump over and put in your two cents.