IBM Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp got together at the Open Software Foundation’s Challenge ’93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment. IBM showed its offering running on an ES/9000 MVS/ESA mainframe connected to a series of RS/6000 workstations and servers. IBM says it will release a a DCE developers kit for VM/ESA next quarter. Hewlett-Packard Co had DCE running across both its HP-UX and MPE-based Precision Architecture RISC workstations and severs. DEC ran its DCE implementation on Alpha AXP OpenVMS and OSF/1 workstations. Other DCE-compliant technologies shown at the exhibition included: Transarc Corp’s Encina transaction processing monitor; Atrium Technologies Inc’s Dazel distributed information delivery system and Sybase Inc’s DCE-compliant System 10 prototype.
