Participants in the WBEMsource initiative include The Open Group, Sun Microsystems, Caldera International, the Storage Networking Industry Association , and the b4wbem project. Press Release at snia.org.
Presents overviews of the Common Information Model (CIM) and the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) architecture. Includes an in-depth discussion on the WMI scripting API and sample scripts through WSH. Article at the MSDN.