This session is looking at the Service Definition Model initiative that Microsoft have been working on and starting to bring to fruition in Longhorn Server.
The Service Definition Model describes a services. Once described, this description can be applied to a server via the Longhorn role configuration infrastructure. These descriptions are also made available to MOM and SMS to finish off the story.
In conceptual terms it looks like Microsoft are finally finishing off the Windows Infrastructure configuration, management and monitoring story and moving towards towards dynamic systems.
Given that they are doing this in the infrastructure are others going to be able to compete? Will all of that expenditure in management frameworks look like a wasted investment?
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