System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions and Connectors
It looks like Microsoft may actually be serious in their endeavors to become more than a niche player in the event management field with the Operations Manager product line. Event management that only works with one platform is immediately handicapped and restricted to small to mid sized companies. But when you add cross platform extensions and connectors so that the software can monitor and manage every server in your environment (like MS’s competitors do) then you have something. Whether their implementation will be worth actually using remains to be seen. It is not unknown for Microsoft to throw us a bone so that they can SAY they do something, but it doesn’t work anywhere but a lab.