What are the most significant changes that HP has made to OpenView to move toward Adaptive Management?
HP has not done much to OpenView, per say. The traditional OpenView products continue to be used to monitor network elements. With Adaptive Management, HP is extending the OpenView architecture through an aggressive acquisition strategy. The recent acquisitions [of Baltimore Technologies, Talking Blocks and others] add more sophisticated capabilities, such as configuration and identity management, and the new architecture coordinates the activities of all these different modules. How does this position HP in relation to competitors, such as Tivoli and Unicenter from Computer Associates International Inc.? Conceptually, everyone is moving toward more automation, better security management and more synchronization of management. HP has the most sophisticated architecture out there right now. I think they have spent a long time trying to figure out how they move forward without leaving behind the embedded investment. To what extent can businesses really use something like this? How practi
