Tivoli Systems Inc is shepherding the effort to get Oracle, Sybase and Informix enterprise server management environments interoperating (CI No 2,709), and is confident that those products will be talking to each other by the end of 1996. Tivoli said it expected to see a common set of functions for managing repositories administration – its own near-term goal is to get Windows, Windows NT and Unix Tivoli Management Environment implementations working together and to push the technology down from the desktop into mobile environments. It said it expected to have new partners and products by the end of the year through acquisitions within the next year, but it insisted that acqusition won’t follow the same model of failure as OpenVision Inc.
