Tim Christian reported for the Network Operating System Management subcommittee that his committee has evaluated two products. Both LAN Alert and DS Expert for NDS satisfy all of the established criteria for a Network Operating System Management product. The committee is in the process of acquiring Open View to evaluate, and Ovee Rahman and Phillip are evaluating ManageWise. A new product called UniCenter has been released, which the committee would like to see.
All evaluations are still in progress.
Maurice reported for the Desktop Standards Group that very few people have been in attendance at their meetings, but those present discussed some of the issues assigned to this committee. Generally, what the committee has decided to do is look at the process of desktop standardization, and basic configuration of software setup, rather than looking at application software packages at this time. Richard announced that Novell is planning to give UNT ManageWise and LAN Desk. Maurice said he would request that Barbara Hall's sub-committee bring a recommendation by the first meeting of November also. The Call Tracking System subcommittee has met and saw a demonstration of Jim Curry's system.