Tactical and strategic battle plan evaluations, however, are in order. We anticipate CA will maintain its revenue growth through pricing and contracting changes. Both companies will be strongly competitive through 1998, with HP, which has not succeeded in delivering new system management function through internal development nor through significant partner integration, being the loser in the framework market. Point products and niche vendors will continue to prosper as stand-alone solutions or by allowing integration to the framework winners. In fact, a few very large META Group clients have found that installing both products is the only realistic solution to a broad set of DSM problems.
Most users find that solution to be unrealistically expensive.
TME provides an efficient management agent for each managed server. Most functional modules use TME to route messages and commands throughout the network. This will improve rapidly and equal that of Unicenter by year-end 1997. Both companies understand that the event console and system administration are strategic targets. This area requires close analysis and verification after TNG's general availability.