MICROSOFT'S Moreinterop collaboration with Novell is being fleshed out with the announcement of the snappily-named System Centre Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, enabling mixed Windows and Linux environments to be managed.

At the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, the companies said they planned to produce a common systems management platform.

"Microsoft is pleased to extend our System Centre suite to offer management for Linux distributions, like SUSE Linux Enterprise," said Brad Anderson, general manager of the Management and Services Division at Microsoft.

"Microsoft is both using and intending to contribute enhancements to the Open Pegasus Project's Common Information Model Object Manager and delivering to the open source community interoperable providers, which collect management data and make it accessible to management services."

Novell will work with the Vole to enhance Operations Manager 2007 using WS-Management and open source software to deliver Linux and UNIX management and plans to use open source interoperability products to extend the Linux management capabilities of its Zenworks systems management tools.

"By working together to extend Linux management for System Centre Operations Manager, Microsoft and Novell are building on this standards-based, open source foundation to provide superior management for mixed IT environments," said Joe Wagner, senior vice president and general manager for Novell Systems and Resource Management.

The new pals have even set up a web site containing more bumf about the project. µ

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