Techlog had a telephone conversation with Eric Berg, director of Product Management in the Windows and Enterprise Management Division at Microsoft about the Engyro acquisition. The acquisition was announced yesterday at the Teched 2007 keynote. Engyro produces software that works with System Center products like Operations Manager. Not only do they provide agents for non-windows platforms, they also build connectors that allow for communications between Operations Manager and other vendors like Tivoli and Openview.

Eric told Techlog that the main reason that they acquired Engyro, were their connectors. Those connectors will be integrated in the next major release of Operations Manager. On the long run, the Operations Manager agents for non-windows platforms will be discontinued. Engyro will exist as a seperate entity within Microsoft, similar to the acquisition of Softricity and Softgrid last year. This is unlike the licensing deal they announced during the Microsoft Management Summit in March were they acquired technology from EMC Smarts, allow for integrated and extensive network monitoring in the next major release of Operations Manager.(continue at source)