Say Goodbye to MOM, Hello to SCOM
MOM, Microsoft's way of watching over Windows networks and correcting them
when they go wrong, is passing its apron over to the new boss --
System
Center Operations Manager, one in a new line of forthcoming System Center
management tools.
Microsoft, though, seems confused as to what to call this thing. Ordinarily,
we'd just use the acronym -- Microsoft loves acronyms and even uses them to
refer to beta software (CTP, RC) and licensing (SA, EA).
But as fellow newsletter
writer Lee Pender of Redmond Channel Partner points out, Microsoft
is steering clear of
"SCOM" and calling it just "Operations Manager." That's
a fine name, so why does "System Center" have to precede it?
The tool was announced this week at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS, an
acronym Microsoft isn't shy about using), but there are already 20,000 customers.
Is it really a new product if it's already in such widespread use?
Posted by Doug Barney on 03/28/2007 at 1:15 PM