IBM Corp may have given up on the unequal task of trying to tie Tivoli Systems Inc’s Management Framework to Distributed Management Environment comributed Management Environment com ponents under the abandoned the Software Foundation vision, but it has bitten a second time. Now IBM Corp is licensing the Austin, Texas-based firm’s object management services, including those for user-defined policy, scheduling, instance-tracking, object collections and extensibility, which IBM will integrate into its System Object Model and Distributed Systems Object Model. The Tivoli Management Framework was recently chosen by X/Open Co Ltd’s systems management workgroup as a draft specification for developing a system management interface. The two are also working to enable IBM’s NetView network management to exchange events with Tivoli’s Management Environment products so that, for example, information on network problems can be displayed at the systems management console, enabling related problems to be diagnosed.
