Hoping to accelerate the acceptance of autonomic computing standards, IBM and Fujitsu Limited on Tuesday announced their intention to work together in the area of new and/or existing standards relating to the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Event Format. The WSDM Event Format is an effort to standardize a set of actions to better manage IT resources as well as standards concerning software installation and deployment. As part of the joint effort, Fujitsu will promote, along with IBM, the WSDM Event Format based on IBM’s proposal of the Common Base Event format, which has already been submitted to the OASIS standards organization late last year. This format is seen as the basis for identifying and resolving problems automatically within a heterogeneous IT environment, according to spokemen from both companies. As part of the alliance both companies are also expected to draft specifications that help define management capabilities and operations for overall IT resource management in environments multi-vendor systems. Corporate and third party developers can go to either www.fujitsu.com or www.ibm.com for more technical information. Technology Industry