At 8:17 AM -0700 4/9/05, Paxton wrote:
> >> And the importance of having a queryable
>network model cannot be overstated. This has become the core of our
>OSS systems
>
>exactly. The vendor CM tools I've looked at all miss the boat in this
>regard. I don't want a bunch of one-hit-wonder tools, I want
>a foundation we can build from.
Hear, hear! This is the sort of thing I've been thinking about, too.
>I'm not sure any of these guys will get
>it right because they are going after what sells to the CIO, and the
>queryable network model is not sellable at that level (or so I'm told.)
Perhaps not directly sellable, but the features and benefits of tools
built atop such a model (modularity, expandability, consistency,
predictability, efficiency, etc.) ought to be.
-Brent
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