Same Soup—Different Flavor

True to its technological roots, the new self-managing industry, press and vendors have come up with a plethora of different names for autonomic computing and related technologies. This is likely to cause confusion to management and end users alike. There is a case for standardization here before the industry becomes mature. Below are a few examples.

• Adaptive Enterprise— Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

• Dynamic Systems Initiative— Microsoft

• e-Business on Demand— IBM

• Autonomic Computing— IBM

• N1— Sun Microsystems

• On-Demand Computing— EDS

• Organic IT— Forrester Research

• Policy-Based Computing— Gartner

• Real-Time Enterprise— Gartner

• Utility Data Center (UDC)— Hewlett-Packard