Sybase Inc, Emeryville, California says that it is working on integrating the Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Computing Environment with Open Client, its client-based application programming interface, to provide enhanced desktop networking and distributed computing capabilities. Open Client currently comprises the applications programming interface itself, for third party product integration with Sybase’s database, SQLServer; a set of network protocol drivers which support TCP/IP, NetWare, DECnet and others; and its own network protocol, TDS (Tabular Data Streams), which is used to traffic information between SQLServer clients and servers. According to Sybase, Distributed Computing Environment support will be added to Tabular Data Streams and it is currently developing a set of Distributed Computing Environment drivers to support Distributed Computing Environment security services, Distributed Computing Enviroment timing functions and Distributed Computing Environment remote procedure calls. All drivers will be available separately. Sybase is expected to officially announce DCE support in the August-September time frame. Meanwhile, database rival Informix Software Inc says it is also working on integrating parts of DCE with On-Line, its relational database, for networking purposes only.
