Tivoli Systems Inc is apparently taking its TME 10 systems management framework down the component route. In a project codenamed Millennium, the IBM subsidiary will gradually wrap its application modules up into components – although exactly how this will be done is not clear yet. According to Tivoli it should help to make installation easier and faster. Third party partner products will still be integrated into the new component framework. The company says that the component approach will mean that customers have fewer vendors to go to for support and service. The first version of Tivoli’s TME 10 framework which is expected to conform to this component architecture is codenamed Twister. It probably won’t hit the streets until late 1998 or early 1999.
