I was able to attend a recent ISV workshop titled “Design For Operations” where members of the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism Team provide much focus on a single question: “How much does it cost to know if my application is working?” Now...

I was in an interesting meeting, surrounded by Very Smart People, all trying to express ways to demonstrate DSI - the Dynamic Systems Initiative. First, we recalled (from http://www.microsoft.com/DSI ) the summary position of DSI: "DSI ... self...

Subscribers to the Directions On Microsoft newsletters ( http://www.DirectionsOnMicrosoft.com ) will find an overview of the SML Platform in the October 2006 issue. The teaser/summary for this article states: " A multivendor systems management...