Microsoft and Sun will ultimately submit the new specifications to a standards organisation for finalisation and for ratification as industry standards. Ballmer and McNealy also said the two are working together on systems management software that will bridge differencs between operating systems and management software. As part of that effort, the firms are collaborating on the development of WS-Management, a Web services specification co-authored by Microsoft, Intel and other companies that defines a single protocol to meet systems management requirements spanning different types of hardware, operating systems and applications. “We’ve been hard at work, the two companies, for a year,” said Ballmer. “We’re poised to leave the computer lab now and enter the marketplace.”
[Via The Economic Times]