NetView and HP OpenView are now significantly different products. They have
been diverging since NetView V2 and haven't shared any new code since about
1992. The NetView client architecture was developed independently, for good or
ill, by IBM in 1994 and introduced in V4 in 1995. How they do it in HP
OpenView is irrelevant. We neither know nor care.
I have said on this forum many times that what is going on in OpenView has
little or no bearing on NetView development. Our developers do not have
OpenView installed and are not looking at its functions or features for
guidance. And while it is interesting to know what OpenView does, this is not
a guide to the future of NetView.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Chris Cowan <chris.cowan@2ND-WAVE.COM> on 09/28/99 08:15:48 PM
Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
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To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: Re: Netview Version 6
James Shanks wrote:
>
> Possible? Nothing is impossible if you are willing to start over and
re-design
> code from the ground up. I didn't say it couldn't be done; I said it probably
> wouldn't. The Tivoli desktop, which isn't nearly as sophisticated as the
> NetView desktop, was designed differently from the get-go. The Tivoli desktop
> is just a front- end for the oserv running on that box. It is the oserv on
the
> box with the desktop which talks to the other oserv on the server. But the
> NetView client has no daemon process to do what the oserv does. It is just a
> desktop and it must therefore be of the same type as the server.
My real intent in posting was not to focus on the GUI, but to get some
recon on what V6 is going to be.
So far, all I know is all of the development is now at Cambridge, MA.
So that smells to me like we'll get some convergence.
None the less, HP OpenView does have the ability to do this. So there's
a factor that could drive the decision.
> So what did I say? I said I don't think they are going to re-design the
NetView
> client-server. Instead I think what they will do is improve the web interface
> so you won't need an Xclient or a Windows client. That's the industry
direction
> after all, not just NetView's.
>
I'm not going to comment on this existing Web interface. Regardless,
the GUI performance would still be an issue (and probably not acceptable
with Web/Java/JavaScript) without some significant changes.
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