Microsoft to Focus Effort on Corporate Data Centers

Microsoft to Focus Effort on Corporate Data Centers "The Microsoft program, called the Dynamic Systems Initiative, is an effort to improve the efficiency of managing large numbers of data-serving computers that run Microsoft Windows. An initial set of software tools for automating the management of Windows programs, called System Center, is intended to work with the next version of Microsoft's server operating system, Windows Server 2003, which the company plans to introduce next month....
"Microsoft had to do this," said Tom Bittman, an analyst at the research and consulting company Gartner Inc. "Windows is the platform that causes the most angst and inefficiency in the data center."