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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

 Tivoli's WizDOM Simplifies Administration Of Sun SPARC Systems

SunFLASH Vol 40 #10					          April 1992 
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         SMCC and TIVOLI Sign Joint Marketing Agreement

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 7, 1992 - Sun Microsystems Computer
Corporation today reported that it has teamed with TIVOLI Systems to
promote the use of WizDOM(TM) software on SMCC's family of workstations
and servers. The two companies will engage in joint marketing
activities, including seminars and other promotional efforts that
demonstrate the benefits of the WizDOM technology -- considered to be
the most advanced solution for centralized administration of
distributed UNIX(R) systems.

TIVOLI announced in December that it had selected SMCC's
industry-leading SPARC(R)/Solaris(R) platform for the initial release
of its WizDOM applications (customer shipments began in January).
"Adding WizDOM software to the existing selection of products gives our
customers a broad range of system management solutions based on the
best technology available today," stated Alex Osadzinski, SMCC's
director of software product marketing. SMCC's system management
offerings include products for high availability and performance,
security, and network and system administration.

"Today's combination of Sun(TM) systems and WizDOM applications lays a
stable foundation for some of the exciting technologies coming down the
road," added John Hime, vice president of marketing at TIVOLI.

The Sun/TIVOLI system management solution is becoming the standard
management platform of the future. For example, SunSoft and TIVOLI will
be collaborating on underlying object technology for system management
built on the Object Management Group (OMG) standard for distributed
computing. The products of this joint development will be incorporated
into future releases of the Solaris environment and SMCC will make
these technologies available to its customers as they become available
from SunSoft. This system software subsidiary of Sun Microsystems,
Inc., makes the Solaris distributed computing solution that runs on
SMCC systems.

The WizDOM framework has also been selected as the standard for system
administration by several industry organizations, including UNIX
International, UNIX System Laboratories and the Open Software
Foundation, ensuring users of future interoperability across
heterogeneous UNIX systems.


SMCC/TIVOLI System Management Solutions

The system management products currently available from SMCC include
the Online(TM) server software product family, which increases system
availability and lowers system administration costs; the Sun SHIELD(TM)
family of software security products; and SunNet(TM) Manager, the
industry's leading UNIX platform for heterogeneous network management.
Both the WizDOM applications and the SMCC system management products
are available today, running on Solaris 1.0; future product releases
will support the upcoming Solaris 2.0 environment.

This new release of Solaris, available on SMCC platforms this summer,
features advanced technology that speeds certain administrative tasks.
For instance, the Solaris 2.0 environment has a dynamically
configurable kernel that eliminates the need to "rebuild" the kernel
when adding device drivers or other modules. Solaris 2.0 also includes
Network Information Services Plus (NIS+), which improves the security
and administration of name services, and the Automated Security
Enhancement Tool (ASET) that enables system administrators to easily
adjust the levels of security on their networks. And finally,
administrators will no longer have to deal with platform-specific
administration techniques, because the Solaris 2.0 environment is based
on the industry-standard UNIX System V Release 4.

Management(TM) (PSM). These products enable system administrators to easily
manage distributed environments by automating routine tasks, such as
the remote management of hosts, users and groups and the administration
of the Kerberos security/authentication system. The WizDOM applications
provide a point-and-click interface to replace the usual keyed-in
commands, dramatically improving user productivity.


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
SunSoft's system management foundation, and as a fundamental technology
for UNIX System Laboratories' SVR4 and the Open Software Foundation's
DME (Distributed Management Environment).


Press Contacts:

	Sun Microsystems Computer Corp.
	Amy Choice (415) 336-0594

	TIVOLI Systems, Inc.
	John Hime (512) 794-9070
	Janice Brown (617) 332-8066

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