Desired State Configuration, OMI = WMI / Linux

Desired State Configuration Update with Jeffrey Snover @ RunAs Radio:

"After just over a year since the original version of DSC came out, Windows 2012 R2 has shipped and DSC has gone through 6 revisions.
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Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer and the Lead Architect for the Windows Server Division. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell."

DSC Resource Kit Wave 6 Is Here - Windows PowerShell Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

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OMI is an open source project to further the development of a production quality implementation of the DMTF CIM/WBEM standards.

OMI = WMI @ Linux