Having wrapped up its acquisition of Austin-based Tivoli Systems Inc, IBM Corp has wasted no time in instituting a systems management revolution, switching the entire future of its systems management strategy on the Tivoli Management Framework with announcement of a new TME 10. TME 10 combines the existing IBM SystemView and Tivoli Management Environment 3.0 products and Tivoli claims it will offer three times the functionality of TME 3.0 and support Unix, NT, MVS, OS/400, OS/2 and personal computers. The company says 80% of the combined product set already exists and 31 of the existing 52 SystemView products will find their way into TME 10, which will comprise 25 IBM and Tivoli and third party applications for managing deployment, availability, security, operations and administration, and applications. By year-end the best features from TME and SystemView will be provided as a single management application, and one quarter later, all underlying services will be migrated to a common TMF framework. Tivoli chief executive Frank Moss remains in control of the new Tivoli, which operates as a wholly- owned company of IBM with a separate board of directors. It includes the 300 original Tivoli employees in Austin, plus more than 700 IBM systems management employees concentrated in Raleigh, North Carolina and Rome, Italy, and has annual turnover of some $1,500m.
