Q&A: Bob Muglia on Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative, autonomic computing - Computerworld

Q&A: Bob Muglia on Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative, autonomic computing - Computerworld "What makes Microsoft's DSI better than autonomic products from other vendors?
The key distinction ... is that we are looking at what we can do to the developer tools to make it easy to build applications that later on can be managed through the operations part of the life cycle. When IBM talks about autonomic computing, they often talk about the resource-balancing nature of it, and that is something we are also focused on. However, I am less concerned about the use of computer resources in a data center and more concerned about the people cost of developing, deploying and operating applications. So by capturing management knowledge at the development stage of an application as we do, there's a lot to be done to lower the cost of operating these systems."