Digital Equipment Corp and IBM Corp have canceled the agreement that made DEC responsible for IBM’s NetView on NT for Alpha. All NetView program development has been transferred to IBM’s Tivoli subsidiary in Austin, Texas. The NetView-on-Alpha program was the last remnant of Polycenter/NetView still in DEC’s hands after it sold off the rest of the suite to Computer Associates. DEC kept NetView, sources says, simply because of IBM’s refusal to do an NT version of the stuff, not even for its own PowerPC boxes. The attitude in Maynard has been slowly changing ever since IBM bought Tivoli, which sees its role in life as aggressively cross- system. Tivoli released NetView for NT on Intel a few weeks ago, and sources say that was the deciding factor in convincing DEC that NetView in Tivoli’s hands really will include Alpha support. Somewhat embarrassingly to parent IBM, Tivoli hasn’t yet committed to a date for NetView for PowerPC. Under the new regime DEC will keep a marketing license to what is now TME 10 NetView, and Tivoli will also sell the Alpha version, which will come on the same CD as the other versions of TME 10 NetView. Separately, DEC signed an agreement with I/G OpenWare Inc of West Chester, Pennsylvania, that offloads the continued development, marketing and support of the MailWorks electronic messaging technology on non-DEC Unix platforms. DEC will continue to develop the product for its own Digital Unix platforms and retains the MailWorks trademark rights.
