Remote Procedure Calls have done as much as anything to divide the industry, and adherents on all sides have always seemed imbued with a zealotry akin to the early Christian martyrs that is until IBM Corp decided it was time for a dose of pragmatism and secretly inched over the line: According to the Clarke Burton report The Journal of Networking Computing, IBM, that Open Software Foundation co-founder and staunch supporter the Remote Procedure Call from the Network Computing System in the Foudnation’s Distributed Computing Environment, is quietly working with Netwise Inc to get its customers that are also users of Sun Microsystems Inc’s rival Open Network Computing to support the stuff. That’s why it’s gone to Netwise to get the compiler technology and Sun Microsystems to get the libraries and wants it running on the RS/6000 and AS/400 as well as MVS.
