DMTF Newsletter

DMTF Newsletter, September 2004	Page 5

Membership Poll Results

The 2004 Annual Membership Poll was a great success! Thank you to all the members who contributed their feedback. This year brought an unprecedented number of participants, which indicates the continually growing involvement of our membership.

Congratulations to the Membership Poll giveaway winners and thanks again to poll sponsors EMC, VERITAS, WBEM Solutions and DMTF for their generous prize donations.

Member opinions are essential to the DMTF decision making process, and we look forward to addressing your collective goals throughout the coming year. Join us at EMW for a full presentation of the survey results!

DMTF Case Study Program Launches

Do you have an interesting story about a solution that was greatly enhanced by DMTF technology? We're launching a new case study program this month to illustrate DMTF technologies in real world use, and would like your contributions.

DMTF Case Studies will focus on end-user implementations describing an environment where products from multiple vendors are in use, and DMTF technologies are the "glue." If you have an experience where DMTF-based products and components have enhanced capabilities, reduced time to market, increased features and capabilities or decreased development costs, let us know about it!

Each case study will be made available on the DMTF Web site as an educational tool and may be distributed to technology journalists as part of our national media outreach effort. This is an excellent opportunity to share your experience with other development professionals, and position your company as an industry thought leader.

Developers and PR professionals from DMTF member companies can visit the new "Members Marketing Central" page on the DMTF Web site to view the Case Study Program Framework. Then, complete the Case Study Proposal form (also on the Members Marketing Central page) to submit your idea. We look forward to hearing from you!

Newly (Re)Named WBEM Infrastructure & Protocols Working Group

Formerly the WBEM Interoperability Working Group (often colloquially referred to as "Interop"), this group has been renamed WBEM Infrastructure and Protocols (WIP), to better reflect its scope and the new and restructured sub-teams that are now part of its work.

This group continues to include the CIM-XML work, and has now added the DEN Special Interest Group as a sub-group (since it relates to the ongoing work on WBEM by the WIP). This new structure will allow the groups to share information more easily and facilitate strategic synergy between them.

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