Digital Equipment Corp last week announced its first full Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment product, DCE for DEC OSF/1 software, available in July. It is claimed to incorporate all the Foundation technologies specified by the Open Software Foundation’s architecture and consists of four components: Digital DCE Runtime Service, Digital DCE Cell Directory Server, Digital DCE Security Server and the Digital DCE Applications Developers’ Kit. DEC is also providing custom DCE consulting and integration service for implementing DCE including technical training and design analysis. DEC plans to add DCE products for MS-DOS machines, OpenVMS on VAX and Alpha AXP systems and the company’s implementation of DCE Distributed File System over the next 12 months and pricing will vary with package components, it says.
