Techworld.com – SMI-S – sound and fury signifying what?
…Take EMC, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, Network Appliance and Sun (then led by Scott McNealy). By August, 2005, they were all OEM’ing AppIQ’s storage management product, and therefore had a more or less equal interest in AppIQ and in the SNIA’s SMI-S standard developing smoothly…
It is certainly a better story with EMC, IBM and NetApp OEM’ing AppIQ than with just HDS, LSI, SGI, Sun and HP. I only wish it had been the case, we might have done an (even) better deal.