DCE

Free/Open Source

San Francisco, CA – January 12, 2005 – "The Open Group announced that the source code of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), an industry-standard, vendor-neutral set of distributed computing technologies, is being made available under an Open Source license. The Open Group’s initiative will broaden the use of DCE concepts and components as a vendor-neutral interoperability infrastructure.

“'The Open Group’s members are committed to working with the open source community to promote interoperability,' said Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group. 'Secure, scalable interoperability is the foundation of exchange and usability of data within and across organizational boundaries.'

"Making DCE available under a recognized open source license (LGPL) both increases the accessibility of DCE as an interoperability technology, and permits a broader community to work on the source to expand its features and keep it current."

Important Reading

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environment
• http://www.advogato.org/article/817.html(approve sites)
• http://www.opengroup.org/dce/info/faq-mauney.html

Competitors to DCE

• CORBA is the acronym for Common Object Request Broker Architecture, OMG's open, vendor-independent architecture and infrastructure that computer applications use to work together over networks. Using the standard protocol IIOP, a CORBA-based program from any vendor, on almost any computer, operating system, programming language, and network, can interoperate with a CORBA-based program from the same or another vendor, on almost any other computer, operating system, programming language, and network.
• Kerberos, NTP, NIS, LDAP
• Web Services