Talk:Open Platform Management Architecture

Vaporware?

This article implies that OPMA actually exists as a real technology. However if you Google search for "buy opma" or "opma motherboard", there are no matches as of 23 May 2006. What's the deal? Do any products actually support this standard?

The author of the "vaporware" comment may not have read the story or followed links provided that showed multiple companies supporting the technology with real products. OPMA subsystem cards have been available for sale to OEMs for some time now (see links in story). But he is correct in that motherboards supporting OPMA have lagged the availablity of cards. This is typical since motherboards are only revised on a fixed time basis, typically associated with the release of new CPU technology such as AMD's "RevF" Opteron. Recently, OPMA enabled motherboards have started to show up in the market so it's not a question of vapor anymore, only a question of the degree of success that may eventually be achieved: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543_5730~111946,00.html

As of 11/10/2006 there are multiple motherboards in the channel from Arima, Tyan, and MSI (each has more than one) with mcards available from Raritan, AMI, Tyan, Arima, and Aten.