After much concern about Novell Inc’s distributed computing plans, and whether it would sacrifice Distributed Computing Environment development on UnixWare in favour of its competing NetWare Directory Services system – it will maintain interoperability between the two – the company is said to have decided to farm out development of DCE for UnixWare to Marlborough, Massachusetts-based personal computer-DCE house Gradient Technologies Inc. Gradient will develop an implementation of DCE 1.03 for UnixWare by the end of the year and by mid-1995 plans a DCE gateway for NetWare, enabling DCE clients to access a NetWare server through a UnixWare server. It also plans a native NetWare DCE implementation, though Novell will continue to push NetWare Directory Services via other implementations.
