In its Open Road schedule, the Open Software Foundation expects to get OSF/1.2 out of the door for the second half of next year, with improved commercial functionality, real-time and pre-emptive scheduling features. DCE, the Distributed Computing Environment was left pretty much untouched – the Foundation says that it will include object-oriented capabilities by 1995, and there are now some 75-odd source licensees for the stuff. The Foundation mapped out the future of the Motif graphical user interface: it plans to start work on the Next Generation User Interface by 1993, which will evolve into a fully object-oriented use interface by 1995. The Foundation also said there would be significant moves towards converging its style look and feel – with Microsoft Windows and with IBM’s Common User Access user interfaces.
