Symantec Corp just could not keep it to itself any longer and wants us to know that it’s in discussions with IBM Corp’s Tivoli Systems Inc to integrate Tivoli’s Management Services Broker into Symantec’s Norton Administrator Suite and support Tivoli’s 10/Plus APIs. The idea is for network administrators to connect both bits of software seamlessly for tasks that require both products. Norton Administrator will have a runtime of the broker embedded inside so software can be distributed to both Norton- and Tivoli-run desktops from either adminstration suite. Symantec’s also signing up to Tivoli’s 10/Plus Association partner program. There’s no word on the time frame, but the work has started already. Tivoli apparently wanted Symantec to make the partner program news public.
