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CMDBf Draft Specification Released, First Tutorial Provides Insight

by doug on August 4, 2007

in Big4, BMC Software, CA, CMDB, CMDB Federation, HP, IBM, Implementation, ITIL, ITSM, Microsoft, Value

It’s finally here. As Van Wiles (BMC) says “The CMDBf Cone of Silence is Lifted”. William Vambenepe (HP) announces it here and the CMDBf website has the spec and files here.

William also provides some practical insight into the specification’s application in a posting called “Tutorial and pseudo-algorithm for CMDBF Query operation”.

I expect that we’ll see some more commentary over the next couple weeks on the positive and negative sides of this. Should be interesting to follow.

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