Autonomic Computing

Summary and Conclusions

The real world question is as follows: “What value will open standards present to corporations?” The answer is choice—the flexibility to choose the right systems, the right hardware and software to support the corporation's objectives. Another benefit is the ability to seamlessly integrate new systems into standardized architecture that works with the existing set of mixed hardware, software, protocols, and networks on heterogeneous systems. Any future software that supports open standards that can easily be deployed will gain substantial market share. It makes good business sense.

The evolution and development of open standards is strategic in the next few years as indicated by Figure 9.2. The more systems in an on demand ...