I will try and get some time on the calendar with some of the internal IBMers working on this effort and put another interview out there. I found out about this via a BMC Blog posting by Van Wiles here.
Interesting commentary will likely appear in the trade rags and skeptic blogs alike very soon.
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CMDB Federation Consortium completes white paper describing the CMDB Federation specification.
Well, we did it!
The CMDBF Consortium has completed its first objective, which is a white paper describing the proposed approach to federating multiple “Management Data Repositories” into a “Federated CMDB.”