Microsoft to manage the world?

With many client systems to manage, perhaps in divergent locations, and add to that the server systems for the infrastructure,
it is not surprising to see the desire and need for a centralize control point in the enterprise environment. For those less familiar, this is where the enterprise downloads system and anti-virus updates and automatically distributes them to all the systems on some kind of schedule. This makes much more sense that having staff roam about the facilities and doing these task manually, or trusting the end-user to do them.[indent].[/indent]On Wednesday Mar 23, 2011, Microsoft has boldly announced that the
Microsoft System Center will now manage (get this) not only just the Micosoft product line, but from now on,
the enterprise can use Microsoft System Center to manage (gulp), Linux, Apple, iPhone and Andorid products![indent].[/indent]Wow! That gesture to assist the business user will certainly get attention, but would you take your Mercedes to a Ford dealer for maintenance? From time to time we may elect to take our vehcile to the neighborly Joe the Mechanic for trivial stuff, but when it gets serious, where do you go? Yea, I like Joe too and I get some good prices and great service, but there are things that the manufacture can do better due to more experience, reference material, parts availability and factory support.[indent].[/indent]IMO, this will be interesting to see the hype and or the success/failure blogs.