Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst with ZapThink, said that companies are going to have to work together and resolve any industry standard issues or risk losing customers all together.

“If you can’t get seamless interoperability, then the standards don’t mean that much to customers,” he said. “It’s a great thing for your wish list, but if it doesn’t work for you, then customers are going to spend their money on solving their problems today, not betting on some standard three years down the road.”

While there is some overlap, Bloomberg said, it’s too easy to write off WS-Management and WSDM as competing standards and wouldn’t be surprised to see the two to merge somewhere down the road.

“In a sense they’re competing but I would say it’s more accurate to say they each focus on solving different problems and there’s some overlap,” he said. “If we said they were simply competing, we’re sort of feeding the fire, the frenzy between the vendors who want to make this out as some sort of battle, but it’s more a question of each vendor trying to come up with specs that will provide the appropriate level of interoperability for their customers based on the sorts of problems they’re trying to solve.”

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