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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:Ummm by crow · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Open Group was formed by the merger of X/Open and the Open Software Foundation. The use of "open" in all those names predates the phrase "open source." The term it relates to is "open systems," which refers to standardized Unix systems, as opposed to mainframes.

  2. Re:WTF? by stratjakt · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's basically a library of Open Source buzzwords, with which you can raise venture capital.

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  3. From wikipedia by Oriumpor · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is a software system developed in the early 1990s by a consortium that included Apollo Computer (later part of Hewlett-Packard), IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, and others. The DCE supplies a framework and toolkit for developing client/server applications. The framework includes a remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism, a naming (directory) service, an authentication service, and a distributed file system (DFS). DCE RPC was derived from an earlier RPC system called the Network Computing System (NCS) created at Apollo Computer. The naming service was derived from work done at DEC. DCE DFS was based on the Andrew file system (AFS), originally developed at Carnegie-Mellon University, and later extended by Transarc Corporation (which was later merged into IBM)

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