Dr Materna GmbH of Dortmund, Germany is integrating its DX-Union network management software with Tivoli Systems Inc’s Tivoli Management Environment version 2.0. The merge is designed to help customers manage large, geographically dispersed networks of personal computers and Unix systems. It will result in full personal computer management capability for the Tivoli system says the company. Dr Materna will also distribute Tivoli products in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. DX-Union, which has been out since 1991 and has been installed on around 10,000 clients to date, provides intelligent printer management of all printers on the network, centralised control of personal computers from a Unix server, user authentication and user management. The company claims to offer reduced complexity through use of a management by subscription paradigm. Beta versions are out now, with general availability set for the next quarter. Systems supported will include Sun Microsystems Inc’s Solaris and SunOS, Hewlett-Packard Co’s HP-UX, IBM Corp AIX, Motorola Inc’s System V.4, Data General Corp DG/UX, Novell Inc’s NetWare, Windows/NT and AT&T Global Information Solutions System 3000. Dr Materna takes its name from founder Dr Winfried Materna, who set up the company in 1980 with Helmut an de Meulen to focus on systems integration and software development, communications and network and systems administration.
