In other DSI related news, Tatarinov outlined progress being made with WS-Management, the specification jointly authored by AMD, BMC Software, CA, Dell, Fujitsu, Intel, NEC, Novell, Sun, Symantec and WBEM Solutions that uses Web services to manage networked clients, servers and devices. He announced support from both HP and Dell to include WS-Management support during 2006. Supporting statements from HP and Dell follow:

·         Dell: "Dell believes WS-Management is a Web services-based protocol that will address the systems management challenges presented by heterogeneous, highly distributed, service oriented application architectures," said Pete Morowski, vice president of software at Dell. "Dell applauds Microsoft’s initiatives to drive WS-MAN standardization with DMTF hardware management standards. As a co-author of the standard, Dell will actively drive implementation of WS-Management into Dell and partner applications for delivery of WS-Man enabled solutions in the second half of 2006 – ultimately delivering customers enhanced flexibility and cost optimization for their enterprise computing resources."

·         HP: “To continue HP leadership as the best managed server platform, HP is pleased to be working with Microsoft to enhance our Windows customers’ experience. We’re delivering support for WS-Management with HP ProLiant servers in conjunction with Windows Server 2003 R2, as well as enhanced integration with MOM and SMS for ProLiant and Integrity servers" said Paul Miller, VP of Marketing for Industry Standard Servers. "These extensions to HP's management portfolio offer mutual HP and Microsoft customers even more choice in management tools, and complement HP Storage Management & HP OpenView products for management of the heterogeneous Adaptive Enterprise."