Can IT directors love Microsoft?
ZDNet | at | by Mike
Microsoft really, really wants to be loved by corporate IT. There is no doubt about that whatsoever. Not just for its desktops, its productivity tools, or the ubiquity of Exchange-on-2000. It wants to be part of the infrastructure. Product announcements include .Net Server and Titanium, next year's Exchange server. Between them these aim to do things from making it easier to build Active Directory structures that reflect the corporate map, to dealing with the issues of server consolidation.
"If you run fewer servers, applications will have to coexist on the same server," said Joseph Reger, chief technical officer of Fujitsu Siemens. "We see Microsoft putting a lot of effort there." Visitors I spoke to agreed that Microsoft is addressing the right questions--mostly those visitors are IT staff, not directors, but their opinions will count.