desktop management task force

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Desktop Management Task Force
DMTF

   <body> (DMTF) The industry consortium that develops, supports,
   and maintains standards for systems management of {PC} systems
   and products, to reduce total cost of ownership.  These
   include the {Desktop Management Interface} (DMI), the
   most-widely used management standard today.

   The DMTF is participating in an industry effort to create a
   standard for management over the {Internet}.  They are
   defining an {object-oriented} {Common Information Model}
   (CIM).

   (http://dmtf.org/).

   (2000-01-19)