[announce] OASIS to Define Web Services Management

[Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS Members Collaborate to Define Web Services Management

Boston, MA, USA; 10 March 2003 -- The OASIS interoperability consortium
today announced plans to define a standard way of using Web services
architecture and technology to manage distributed resources. The new
OASIS Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Technical Committee
will closely align its work with related activities at other standards
groups, including the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Services
Architecture Working Group and the Distributed Management Task Force
(DMTF), and with other OASIS security and Web services efforts.

"As the number of Web services deployed across the extended enterprise
increases, the ability to effectively  manage those services will become
critical to building out a comprehensive services-oriented
architecture," said Winston Bumpus of Novell, co-chair of the OASIS WSDM
Technical Committee.  "By collaborating with other ongoing industry
standards activities in this area, this new technical committee will
play a important role in defining how services should be managed."

Heather Kreger of IBM, co-chair of the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee,
added, "This work is immediately relevant for business integrators who
use Web services, management system vendors, and Web service platform
vendors. It also applies to ongoing work being done by business,
government, and university sectors on provisioning, management, grid,
and on-demand computing."

Initial members of the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management
Technical Committee include Actional, BMC Software, Computer Associates,
Confluent Software, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Novell, OpenNetwork,
SeeBeyond, Sun Microsystems, Waveset, webMethods, and others.


Industry Support for WSDM

"BMC Software is pleased to be part of the OASIS Web Services
Distributed Management Technical Committee," said Mary Smars, vice
president, product management and development, PATROL, BMC Software. "As
a leader in systems management, we understand that while Web services
brings the opportunity for organizations to share data across companies
to work together, it also brings significant management challenges. BMC’
s goal is to help streamline and improve manageability of these services
so that all can benefit from a strong Web Services environment."

"Web services are bringing a new dimension to interoperability and are
dramatically affecting the way we manage the IT environment," said
Dmitri Tcherevik, vice president in the Office of the CTO at Computer
Associates.  "CA is committed to supporting industry-wide initiatives to
ensure the standards-based manageability of this evolving IT
environment, so that customers can gain its full business benefits while
optimizing the efficiency of their IT operations."

"The industry has recognized that Web service management is a core
requirement for mission-critical deployment of distributed applications.
As a leading provider of Web services management products, Confluent
Software is pleased to support the formation of the OASIS WSDM Technical
Committee," said Dr. Sekhar Sarukkai, co-founder and CTO, Confluent
Software Inc. "Confluent will contribute key customer learnings in order
to help the new committee successfully deliver on the creation of a Web
services-based architecture and technology--in line with what
enterprises have told us they need."

"HP is focusing strategic investments in improved manageability,
including management of Web services and management through Web
services, critical to offering customers the flexibility, adaptability
and the economic benefit they require," said Nora Denzel, senior vice
president, HP Software Global Business Unit. "As the recognized leader
in adaptive management software, HP is committed to the OASIS WSDM
Technical Committee; and, on behalf of our customers, we are working
with strategic partners to reduce the complexity and costs of managing
technology."

"Management is a key component in the Web services stack, and the
ability to manage Web services between enterprises and across disparate
computing platforms is critical," said Heather Kreger of IBM. "Providing
a way to help enable and advance resource management will create new
business opportunities for vendors and developers. We are excited to be
working with the Web services and management communities to develop
these necessary specifications."

"Just as security is a prime concern for our customers looking to deploy
Web services, so too is the need to effectively manage those distributed
Web services across their organizations - and the WSDM standard will
provide an ideal vehicle to accomplish this," said Winston Bumpus,
director of standards for Novell. "To that end, Novell brings a wealth
of experience in network management to this technical committee, and we
are pleased to provide leadership in the important work being
conducted by this group."

"With every new wave of technology adoption comes a new set of
management challenges. Waveset is committed to providing innovative
security management solutions that address these challenges for its
customers and partners," says Darran Rolls, Director of Technology for
Waveset Technologies Inc. "Defining a standards-based management model
for Web services will be a critical part of the end-to-end systems
architecture for successful Web services deployments."

"webMethods has played a very active role in writing and promoting
management standards based on Web services technologies, exemplified by
our efforts in co-creating the OMI specification," said Matt Green,
director, Business Technology Group, webMethods, Inc. "We consider our
work with the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical
Committee to be important for the future development of a Web services
management framework. We look forward to helping further drive the
adoption of Web services by providing a simple and cost-effective means
to manage Web services and other resources in the production
environment."


About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org)

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the
development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members
themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open
process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite
disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web
services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing,
topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. Founded
in 1993, OASIS has more than 2,000 participants representing over 600
organizations and individual members in 100 countries.

For more information:

Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS (www.oasis-open.org)
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
+1.941.284.0403


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