With the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Open Software Foundation just days away from formally announcing the winners of its Distributed Management Environment Request For Technology, the street has pegged Tivoli Systems Inc as a shoo-in to provide some of the core technology with its object-oriented framework, management request broker, object interaction and graphical display services and command line interface. But the Software Foundation won’t be standing on one leg in its selection. A clutch of as many as seven companies and nine technologies are rumoured to have made it through the procedure, which started out with 27 submissions. The Foundation is believed currently to be in contractual discussions with its picks and is fiercely guarding their identities. Distributed Computing Environment technology is due in December.
