Snapshots of the Foundation’s Mach-based micro-kernel are out now, and an advanced technical release is slated for the third quarter. The micro-kernel won’t do away with Unix System Laboratories Inc code entirely, as a server version of the existing OSF/1 operating system will be required to drive the stuff. The Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Management Environment, DME, meanwhile, will roll out in a five-step process. The first is the snapshot. A Distributed Services Release is targeted for mid-1993, providing key distributed management services to the Distributed Computing Environment technology. In the second half of 1993, the Foundation will provide the integrated DME framework, management user interface, management object and a developer’s toolkit. However, it failed to mention in its release that it has dispensed with the services of IBM’s data engine in DME – apparently the object-oriented software is too complicated to integrate with the other technologies. IBM’s data engine was to be used alongside Tivoli Systems Inc’s Object Management Group-compliant Object Dispatcher technology in the DME server compartment, which maintains objects that contain information about resources on a network as well as routines for managing them. The Foundation will expand Tivoli’s stuff to fill the role.
