As part of its agreement to take over DEC’s Polycenter systems management software and base (CI No 2,900), Computer Associates International Inc says it will enhance the Polycenter product line, create an OpenVMS version of CA-Unicenter and provide native support for DECnet from its IP and SNA-based CA-Unicenter TNG. The deal under which CA purchases the Polycenter software and base was announced in April and formally concluded a few days ago. CA says it will upgrade Polycenter products to the latest versions of OpenVMS, enhance them with CA-Unicenter functionality and develop Windows NT and HTML-based management workstations for Polycenter products to provide administration of heterogeneous environments from a single desktop. It will bring OpenVMS under the CA-Unicenter umbrella by incorporating Polycenter functionality into a new CA-Unicenter for OpenVMS product, allowing administrators to manage OpenVMS systems from NT or Unix workstations. CA will support DECnet alongside Internet Protocol and SNA communications in its next- generation CA-Unicenter TNG product. CA’s also offering a version of the TNG software development kit extended with a Polycenter integration kit. There’s also a full-blown migration kit to get users off Polycenter and on to CA- Unicenter. CA-Unicenter is already available for DEC’s Unix and NT Alpha systems. DEC will retain PolyCenter NetView, but it will be included in future Unicenter products. DEC will train 25,000 of its engineers in CA-Unicenter systems management software and will resell it worldwide. In return for that, Computer Associates agreed that it will promote DEC’s service business. The two are collaborating on future products.