Thanks for the link. Did you notice the acronymns in that one paragraph overview:

WBEM
WMI
CIM
DMTF
COM
SDK

Not bad for a quarter of a page.

I have been reading Essential Com at the local Barnes and Nobles Memorial Library, and actually choked out loud (people were looking at me funny) when confronted by an acronym storm like this. I'll have to buy the book and post the ones from that page, there were at least a dozen or more on one short page. My favorite one consisted of four three letter groupings (it was like OSF DCG xxx xxx: Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Group something something).

I love this field, never boring.

Later,
Bill