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Open Group Releases DCE 1.2.2 as Free Software

Posted by michael on from the run-with-the-big-boys dept.

lkcl writes "The Open Group announced 12th January 2005 that they are releasing DCE/RPC 1.2.2 as a Free Software Project - under the LGPL. This is a major coup for Free Software: the Distributed Computing Environment is known to be involved in some major projects. There is a mirror at opendce.hands.com which runs rsync, ftp, and there is also a dce122.tar.bz2.torrent bittorrent running as well."

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  1. Re:WTF? by lkcl · · Score: 0, Redundant

    have a quick read of the advogato article as well it gives a few more details. this stuff some people have been working on or with for _twenty years_ :) we're so so incredibly privileged to have been granted this opportunity.

  2. Microsoft DCOM by Charvak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Microsoft DCOM is based on DCE/RPC. Now we can easily port the DCOM technology to UNIX