IBM Corp’s Tivoli Systems Inc and Sybase Inc’s Powersoft business group have inked a distribution deal whereby Tivoli will bundle Powersoft’s Enterprise 5.0 for Windows in a collection called the Tivoli Manager for PowerBuilder Applications. It’s intended to enable PowerBuilder developers to write applications that are ready for network management. This is the first offering to emerge from Tivoli’s Applications Management Specification application programming interfaces introduced late last year. The bundle also includes the Tivoli Developer Kit for PowerBuilder and the Tivoli Manager for Applications. PowerBuilder applications built using the tool kit will generate a PowerBuilder application description file that the Tivoli Applications Manager can use to manage the application. The Tivoli Manager for PowerBuilder bundle will be available next month, comprising a single-user PowerBuilder license and a 25-user license for the Tivoli Manager for Applications for $5,000 for limited t ime, which the company wouldn’t specify. An upgrade to a 100-user license of the manager is available for a further $6,000 during the promotion. Work is also underway at Dynasty Technologies Inc, Forte Software Inc, Informix Software Inc, Intersolv Inc, Oracle Systems Corp, Softool Inc and Unify Corp on the Tivoli Applications Management Specification application programming interfaces.
