Following on the heels of Hewlett-Packard Co’s victory in the bidding for the Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Management Environment with its OpenView comes news that wide area network switch builder Network Equipment Technologies Inc, Redwood City, California has licensed OpenView Network Node Manager 2.0, the company’s network management software: using this technology, Network Equipment has developed SNMP Manager, network management software for the SparcStation environment; IBM licensed the technology back in April; Network Equipment Technologies’ product allows a network administrator to configure, troubleshoot and monitor performance of multivendor TCP/IP networks from a single workstation, accessing both local and wide area nets.
