It turns out that SunSoft Inc’s Distributed Objects Everywhere is an umbrella term for the next object-oriented version of Solaris. Object elements, such as interprocess control, are already being incorporated into the operating system via the Spring project, but the full object release will include SunSoft’s ONC+ networking services; compliance to the Object Management Group’s Common Object Request Broker Architecture and Sunsoft’s Common Object Services Standard; its Distributed Object Management Facility or system call layer; and, of course, NeXT Computer Inc’s NeXTstep application development environment and interface – we’re great at the plumbing, SunSoft notes, but not so good on the toilet seat. It also reckons that an object version of Solaris will make it the only vendor to offer a truly distributed operating system both Microsoft Corp’s Cairo and Taligent Inc Pink are simply a personal computer on steroids, it declared.
