IBM’s time-hallowed Tuesday announcement was a decidedly perfunctory affair yesterday, and best of a very small crop was a limited promotional offering in the US on the NetView network management products in their SolutionPac incarnations: the offer runs to July 21 and enables users to try an installed and customised NetView in their system and network environment at no risk – those who cancel the SolutionPac and NetView licence during the four-month test period will incur no charges, IBM promises.