>I appears that HSM is still not suppoted for NT clients.  Does IBM/Tivoli
>still believe that the open systems environment is a passing fad??

But you said "NT" and "open systems" in the same context!  ;-)

We know what you're getting at, though.  The "ADSM New News!" teleconference
of February 25th, 1998 was notable in a strong emphasis on "NT Directions",
where the scent of money was overtly bulleted.  It also said:
  - SSD commits to become best-of-breed by NT 5.0 GA
    - ADSM developer on Redmond campus
    - Separate, focused NT strategy/development effort
    - Functionality to be delivered in lock step with Microsoft
It also talked of "HSM via NT API".

Well, in some 30 years of dealing with IBM I've learned that strategic
directions are in reality tactical explorations, not to be taken very
seriously in that they rarely live up to the proclamations.  If you've
dealt with other vendors you'll probably agree that IBM is far and
away better than most other vendors in responsiveness and action.  It's
just when they make such a display of intending to do something and don't
follow through that their credibility suffers with the customer base.

   Richard Sims, BU