IBM Corp has turned to Islandia, New York-based Computer Associates International Inc for enterprise-wide systems management for the RS/6000 Unix family. The two have an agreement under which Computer Associates will provide RS/6000 users with CA-Unicenter for Unix, becoming, so it claims, the only systems software vendor to provide enterprise-wide systems management connecting MVS, VM and VSE-based mainframes with OS/2, AIX and other Unix systems, enabling data to be managed from any workstation on the network. The company has already announced that it is developing CA-Unicenter for OS/2 2.0. CA-Unicenter is designed to provide security, scheduling, tape protection, disk back-up, archive management, help desk and console automation. IBM will participate in joint marketing and sales activities on the product, for which no price or availability information was given, and Computer Associates says that it will convert other of its products to run on the RS/6000. CA-Unicenter is also being developed for Sun Microsystems Inc, Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Tandem Computers Inc machines, and for Novell Inc’s NetWare, the company noted.
