Re:The gist behind the story.... (Score 1)

Wow. Someone read the article! Good job! Everyone, THIS IS A GOOD THING! Microsoft isn't moving in on your market. System Center is primarily a monitoring package. It's not going to setup apache or compile your kernel. It's going to tell you if a service is dead, or logs are growing excessivly, or if you're running out of space, RAM is maxing out, etc. That kind of thing. There are a lot of large enterprises that are big into Microsoft that would love something like this. It would give them some assurance that those foreign linux boxes would be adequately monitored. Plus currently many enterprises have already invested in System Center for MS products but have something separate for *nix. This would allow them to consolidate. Yes there are ways using SNMP, Syslog, etc to do this. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be other options. System Center Operations Manager (MOM) isn't going to take over your box. It's only going to be watching them in an enterprise environment. Nothing more. RTFA