This week the Open Software Foundation, overburdened and listing badly, is expected to jettison its Distributed Management Environment technology, according to Unigram.X sources. They expect the Foundation to tell its members it is no longer committing to the Management Environment as was originally envisioned and that it will retreat to a simplified version intended only for the struggling consortium’s other major offering, the Distributed Computing Environment. Wanting to show something for the heavy expenditure on the Distributed Management Environment over the years, it is believed the Foundation will circumscribe it still further and shelve its pricing functions – one of the key reasons it was needed in the first place. Such an eventuality could be a boon for a company like Austin, Texas start-up Atrium Technologies Inc – which has an applicable printing technology that also meets the de facto Palladium distributed printing standard.
