Neat ideas

So I’ve been playing around with a new technology business lately. Basically, I’ve seen that there is a significant lack in the realm of IT infrastructure congruence, particularly when it comes to configuration. Some people use standards, others invent their own, and none of them can learn to play along together. Wouldn’t it be neat if you could develop a modular administration system that detected installed appliances and applications and directly allowed for administrative tasks remotely? Even better, if you integrated that with a virtual server for deploying enterprise applications with a few mouse clicks? It’s a lot like Novell’s eDirectory and accompanying services, but this would be much less expensive since the modules would be based on open source software. I think it’s a neat idea.