* Modern application management comes in many forms
* CA, Everdream and LANDesk improve systems management software
* The high level of merger and acquisition activity ending 2004 and beginning 2005 is good for the industry as a whole
* Don’t underestimate the importance of a good user interface
* RLX’s ControlTower 6G
* Power5, virtualization can lead to better management of IBM servers
* Application vendors wake up to the importance of management
* Configuration management basics
* What Microsoft’s Operational Framework offers
* IBM’s announcements improve management picture
