Austin, Texas-based Tivoli Systems Inc’s distributed object management framework, Wizdom – some components of which are included in the Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Management Environment – ships from next month at a cost of $500 per node. Ironically, Wizdom, which uses the dynamic method of integrating objects into a distributed system – like the HyperDesk Inc-Digital Equipment Corp object development framework – will be available only on Sun Microsystems Inc workstations: a Novell Inc NetWare version will follow, while implementations of the Open Software Foundation members’ hardware are further out. Wizdom uses Tivoli’s own remote procedure call protocol, and although the firm says it will move to conform to the Object Management Group’s Object Request Broker specification – to which the Open Software Foundation has publically committed – it has no timescales for that work.
