In December, I blogged happily that " DMTF Accepts New CMDBf Specification ." Since then, the CMDB Federation Work Group of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has met four times and the CMDBf consortium, which wrote the spec before turning it over to the DMTF, is winding down. We...

Followers of my blog know that I am sucker for a good standard. I am a shameless idealist. My personal mission is to make IT organizations hum (picture the current VISA commercials) and to ensure that when the inevitable hiccups do occur, the cause is not incompatible solutions from different vendors...