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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

          SunSoft, Tivoli To Develop Industry's First
           OMG-Compliant System Management Foundation

SunFLASH Vol 39 #24					          March 1992 
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SunSoft today announced that it will jointly develop the industry's
first OMG-compliant foundation for system management with Tivoli
Systems, the leading provider of object-oriented system management
applications for distributed computer systems. The press release is
attached for your reference.
 
The products of the joint development will be incorporated into a
future release of Solaris, as a component of SunSoft's Project DOE
(Distributed Objects Everywhere).  SMCC will make these technologies
available to its customers as they become available from SunSoft.
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             Key Component Of SunSoft's Project DOE

	
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., --March 31, 1992-- Solidifying its leadership
position in object-oriented technology, SunSoft today announced that it
has entered into a joint development and technology sharing agreement
with TIVOLI Systems, Inc. to create the industry's first system
management foundation built on the Object Management Group (OMG)
standard for distributed computing. By leveraging this widely-endorsed
standard and WizDOM technology, SunSoft and TIVOLI will provide a
consistent and powerful foundation for managing heterogeneous networked
systems, significantly lowering the cost of system administration. The
jointly developed technology, to be bundled with future versions of the
Solaris solution, is a key component of SunSoft's vision of Project DOE
(Distributed Objects Everywhere).

Project DOE is a vision for a new computing paradigm where 
modular applications are created out of distributed objects that can
interoperate across multiple platforms. SunSoft was instrumental in
defining the OMG standard for distributed objects, which has been
endorsed by 200 major computer vendors and consortia in the United
States and Europe. SunSoft will unveil its road map for Project DOE in
the next few months.

"Administration of heterogeneous systems will be one of the first 
areas to experience the benefits of object technology," said Bill Coleman,
vice president of system software at SunSoft. "Our partnership with
TIVOLI enables us to combine the OMG standard with other emerging
standards, providing interoperability across a full range of computing
platforms and operating systems."

 SunSoft will integrate its system management facilities and 
distributed object management technologies, and TIVOLI will provide
part of its WizDOM software to this framework. System management
applications built on the common foundation will allow high-level
centralized administration of networked systems while shielding
administrators from the complexity of diverse operating systems and
changing management policies.

"SunSoft and TIVOLI are taking the lead in delivering a systems 
management framework that expedites the delivery of a new generation of
system management tools on a broad range of systems," said Frank Moss,
president of TIVOLI. "The best news is that users can begin solving
their critical system management problems today using WizDOM
applications, with the assurance that their investment will be
preserved and extended into the future."

Two TIVOLI WizDOM applications are available today on the
Solaris 1.0 solution, allowing system administrators to add
users, browse the entire system,make configuration changes, and perform
other formerly complex management tasks using point-and-click and
drag-and-drop features.

Founded in 1989, TIVOLI Systems of Austin, Texas, is the premier 
provider of object-oriented system management applications and framework 
technology that dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of managing 
distributed computer systems. TIVOLI WizDOM technology was selected as a 
component for UNIX International's Atlas road map and as the baseline for 
the Open Software Foundation's DME (Distributed Management Environment) 
framework.


Press Contacts:

Shernaz Daver, SunSoft, Inc.  415-336-0678
John Hime, TIVOLI Systems, Inc.  512-794-9070
or
Janice Brown, TIVOLI Systems, Inc.  617-332-8066   	
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