MOM v3 (SCOM 2007) beta 2 is available for public download
At MMS in April, we announced that the next version of MOM will be called System Center Operations Manager 2007.
One of the coolest things about this product is that it brings proactive monitoring to a whole new level - monitoring a solution as opposed to a server is now possible. This means you (for example) monitor an end to end messaging solution rather than a set of Exchange servers - basically a business-centric view on health as opposed to an IT-centric one. Inbuilt templates are provided for common solutions, and you can build your own for inhouse applications using Visual Studio - the Dynamic Systems Initiative is really coming to life with this wave of products.
You can download the beta and read more information from http://www.microsoft.com/mom/evaluation/beta/opsmgroverview.mspx. Have a play - this is good stuff, and it will RTM reasonably soon so it's not some far distant promise :-)
