Novell Inc’s Unix System Group is reported to have shipped OEM versions of its Distributed Manager framework of services and protocols. First system management applications that will take advantage of it are due this month. Distributed Manager is Unix System Laboratories Inc’s implementation of the Tivoli Systems Inc TME environment, which is also the core component of Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Management Environment. Before its acquisition by Novell, Unix Labs’s Tivoli work was seen as the centrepiece of Unix International’s distributed vision of the future for Unix, the Atlas. Distributed Manager runs on Intel Corp iAPX-86 computers under UnixWare and Unix System V.4 and System V.4.2 implementations of Unix.
