[79] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Tivoli Output Manager - another product we should probably look at
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Whitson)
Tue Feb 15 13:49:01 2000
To: printdel@MIT.EDU
From: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 2000 13:48:58 -0500
In-Reply-To: "David F. Lambert"'s message of "Tue, 15 Feb 00 10:31:55 EST"
Message-Id: <n91d7py2tet.fsf@dragon.mit.edu>
"David F. Lambert" <LAMBERT@mitvma.mit.edu> writes:
> Please take a look at the following IBM announcement. We'll probably
> want to take a closer look at this product to see how well it might
> fit our needs...
> -Dave
>
> http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=200-022
This announcement is both amazingly vague and chock-full of
content-free buzzwords. Do you have any pointers to real information
on the product?
From what I can parse of this, the product seems to try to be an
all-singing, all-dancing print client (where "print" has been
redefined to include "sending faxen" and "uploading files to a web
server"); something that could be used in addition to InfoPrint
Manager.
It does claim to use "cryptography" somewhere in the picture, though
it's completely inspecific as to where.
While it can send jobs via the LPR protocol, it probably can't handle
the kerberos extensions, meaning it wouldn't be able to communicate
well to the Athena printing system.
While the server seems to run on a number of Unixen, the end-user
client is Windows-specific.
It's unclear whether this would be at all useful to us. Given that
this seems to mostly affect Windows users, it might be worth checking
with the Pismere folks who are already working on print clients.
-mike
