Same Soup—Different Flavor
True to its technological roots, the new self-managing industry, press and vendors have come up with a plethora of different names for autonomic computing and related technologies. This is likely to cause confusion to management and end users alike. There is a case for standardization here before the industry becomes mature. Below are a few examples.
Adaptive Enterprise— Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Dynamic Systems Initiative— Microsoft
e-Business on Demand— IBM
Autonomic Computing— IBM
N1— Sun Microsystems
On-Demand Computing— EDS
Organic IT— Forrester Research
Policy-Based Computing— Gartner
Real-Time Enterprise— Gartner
Utility Data Center (UDC)— Hewlett-Packard
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