Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Transarc Corp will begin shipping its Distributed Computing Environment and Encina transaction processing monitor for SunSoft Inc Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 from next month – the development kits for both the environments have been available for over a year. The UK’s Protek Ltd, Investronica SA in Spain and Axlan SA in France will distribute the CD-ROM-delivered software in Europe. As part of its Common Open Software Environment effort, Sun Microsystems Inc’s SunSoft is also expected to begin marketing, support and distribution of Transarc Distributed Computing Environment for Solaris 2.2 once terms have been agreed. DCE Base Services which must be running on every Solaris machine in a DCE environment, costs $300. DCE Call Directory Service and DCE Security Service, which must feature on at least one machine in a DCE environment cost $2,500 each. DCE Application Development Tools are $150 and DCE Enhanced File Services, which are due in the fourth quarter, are $3,000. DCE Media/Manula kit is $600. And support costs 20% of the software list price.
