I agree that BMC needs to continue to improve its products, but Microsoft is the least of their problems, at least right now. I have seen the MS ITSM product, and it is not a credible threat at this time. Microsoft is initially positioning it against the second tier platforms while they work the bugs out and such. The Big Three would totally eat its lunch right now.
Rick On Dec 21, 2011 7:58 AM, "John Baker" <jba...@javasystemsolutions.com> wrote: > Hello, > > It seems to me, and I'm sure others will give me ten solid reasons why I'm > wrong, that when companies like Google and Microsoft take an interest in a > new market, they will almost certainly make a significant impact within a > few years. > > I recently noticed Microsoft had been putting some effort into SAML, with > their Active Directory Federation Service (version 2) product. It's > actually not that bad, and I suspect Ping Identity will need to raise their > game. Whilst ADFS2 lacks polish in some areas, it does work and appears to > have gained an enthusiastic body of supporters. > > So let's hope BMC concentrate on delivering a polished ITSM product that > runs in a small Java virtual machine, supports hundreds of concurrent > users, cluster properly, etc., because Microsoft are becoming increasingly > good at delivering polished products and have access to internal webserver > technology, their own database, etc. > > I say that with a sense of disappointment because recently, for the first > time in a decade, I found myself installing and enjoying Windows 7 > professional on a notebook. Why? I didn't have to battle with Ubuntu to > make the bluetooth/wireless drivers work properly - it "just worked". > Almost. > > > John > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
