"Oughtness"? "Isness"? What? We recently caught up with Anders Vinberg, Architect and one of the leaders of Microsoft’s Management infrastructure team (technologies like MOM, WU, etc) and wordsmith(he makes up words to describe complex systems). Also present was Architect Raymond McCollum, who works on things like the new event log mechanism in Windows Vista. Systems management is full of really challenging problems and Anders' team has done some incredible work in this area.