Posted: Apr. 19, 2004

Many new management products and technologies will be available in the second half of 2004. Following that, most are dependent on the next release of the Windows server platform, code-named Longhorn Server. The next release of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2005, will contain some facilities for designing operational and management requirements into applications, but support for building fully DSI-enabled applications will come in the next release, code-named Orcas. To fully exploit the management capabilities of these DSI-enabled applications, customers will require features contained in System Center version 3.