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To: hpeace who wrote (21673)	11/16/1997 4:59:00 PM
From: Meathead	Respond to of 176387

steve - You may be missing my point. The managability winners won because of their proprietary offerings. Proprietary hooks only work well only in a homogeneous environment. Do you think Compaq's chassis intrusion alert will work on a HP system? No. Is it part of DMI 2.0? No. Dell only offers solutions that are predicated on open standards guaranteeing full functionality and predictability in a hertogeneous enterprise. Dell has resisted proprietary offerings for just this reason. The standards are evolving a little too slowly however and I believe Dell is caving in and you might see a slight departure from their strategy in the next batch of products. By the way, mule PC's don't interest me much. MEATHEAD

To: hpeace who wrote (21673)	11/16/1997 5:40:00 PM
From: Meathead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

steve - your misinforming everyone again.. your statement " but the management tool is part of the O/S not the hardware. It does the works regardless of the pc." is absolutely incorrect. Only simple management tasks like software upgrades/config info can be performed regardless of the PC. To take advantage of advanced manageability functions, hardware must be DMI compliant. Beyond that, things like thermal monitoring, component lock-out, chassis intrusion etc. require special hardware and propritery software hooks. There is a broad spectrum of capabilities and offerings within a still evolving standard. Vendors offer a combination of this that and the other to provide a so called total solution. If you buy someone's proprietary offering, there's little guarantee it's specialized functionality will become a standard. So be clear. I assume it's not what you MEANT to say and you were referring to managewise only, but it can easily be construed as FACT by someone who doesn't understand this stuff. MEATHEAD