Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper, and some of the Common Open Software Environment people think that DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it is becoming a member too. DEC, on the other hand, which has been having COSE talks at both the strategic and technical levels, feels there might still be a few loose ends to tie up, some of them perhaps circulating around the Process Paper that is expected to be made public soon. DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap. Besides its low-profile Object Group Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service application integration scheme, it thinks that COSE might like Habitat, its technology for enabling an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix System V.4 on its OSF/1 system – and it wouldn’t expect fellow COSEs to implement it right away.
