Recognizing Windows NT’s slow but sure invasion of its territory, SunSoft Inc launched version 2.0 of its network management system, Solstice Enterprise Manager last week, with a scripting capability to manage Simple Network Management Protocol agents on Windows NT as well as Solaris. Having found favor in the telecommunications sector, it is now being positioned for the commercial market as heir apparent to SunNet Manager. It also includes Remote Procedure Call and Common Management Information Protocol, CMIP, support, advanced event correlation, customizable event response capabilities and backward compatibility with SunNet Manager and Domain Manager. A new Solstice Workshop tool based on the Java Management application programming interface was announced, as was Solstice Network Client 3.0, an NT-ready update of Sun Microsystems Inc’s PC/NFSpro which provides Network File System file and print services and TCP/IP utilities to Windows clients. Solstice internet Mail 2.0, which Sun fancies as a rival to Microsoft Exchange, is said to be a more scalable version of the Interface Message Processor-based mail server, expected to ship by year-end. Sun released its fully supported IMAP4 mail client for NT, Windows95 and Solaris with internet Mail 2.0. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, LDAP, support is expected by the beginning of next year.
