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OSF Flash - DME NMO GA
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Wed Jun 8 23:30:59 1994
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Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1994 14:19:51 -0400
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Open Software Foundation
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OSF ELECTRONIC FLASH
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An electronic mail news flash for OSF Members from
the Open Software Foundation
June 8, 1994
OSF Announces General Availability of DME
Network Management Option 1.0
The Open Software Foundation has announced the general
availability of its Distributed Management Environment
(DME) Network Management Option (NMO) 1.0 technology.
The second component of DME, the NMO provides a common,
vendor-neutral platform to access network management
services.
The NMO provides technology for applications that need
to access the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
and the Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP) to
manage network devices. It consists of the XMP
application programming interface (API) which has been
standardized by X/Open, as well as other communication
tools. The NMO is a valuable enhancement to existing
network management frameworks and can be easily
integrated.
"We congratulate OSF on delivery of the NMO," stated
Bruce Murrill, Technical Director of the Network
Management Forum. "The NMO code will help product
developers implement an OMNIPoint Communications
Platform and give users a greater likelihood of
interoperability between systems, and portability of
applications."
The underlying technologies that were selected by OSF
come from Bull S.A. (Bull), Hewlett-Packard (HP), and
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme (SNI). Bull, a
major technology provider, was chosen as the prime
integrator for NMO and also supplied the XMP technology.
According to Integrated System Management (ISM) Product
Line Director, Jean-Marie Leduc, "Bull fully supports
the OSF announcement as NMO will speed up the
development of portable, interoperable management
solutions. Our ISM already includes the necessary
capabilities to enable the smooth integration of NMO."
"The technology found in the NMO is used in the OpenView
Distributed Management Platform Version 4.0 and is a
high priority with many OpenView customers, particularly
those in the telecommunications industry," said Robert
Hoog, general manager of HP's Network and System
Management Division. "We applaud OSF's success in
delivering this crucial enabling technology."
SNI did the engineering work necessary to integrate the
CMIP support with the OSI upper layers and the X.500
Naming Service from OSF's Distributed Computing
Environment (DCE). "SNI understands the need for a
common management capability across vendor platforms and
supports OSF in the introduction of the NMO technology
designed to address this need," said Dr. Joerg
Gonschorek, Director of SNI's department for Network and
Systems Management.
The DME NMO 1.0 source code may be licensed for
$120,000, which allows full distribution for binary
products. There is also a limited distribution license
option which is intended for internal use only,
available for $12,000.
The Open Software Foundation delivers open systems
technology with the objective of enabling people to
exploit information technology to improve the way they
do business. OSF supplies software to make information
technology easier to learn and easier to use, while
enabling various vendors' equipment to work together,
sharing applications and information across distributed
open computing environments. OSF has created a coalition
of vendors and users who work together to provide the
best available open systems technologies. Headquartered
in Cambridge, MA, with offices in Brussels, Grenoble and
Tokyo, OSF has more than 400 members worldwide.
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