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OSF Electronic Bulletin--January Issue
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Search for these topics inside this issue:
* Executive Summary
- Key Highlights from this Month's Bulletin
* OSF and Industry Announcements
- The OSF Japan Vendors Council (OSF/JVS)
- A Look at OSF's New Organization
* OSF End User Forum Update
* Technology News Nuggets
- Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)
- DCE at UniForum
- Updated and New DCE Collateral -- Product Catalog
and Case Study
- Decorum '95
- OSF I-FEST and DCE Certification Program
- European DCE Success Story
- OSF/Motif Graphical User Interface
- Desktop Interest Group
- OSF/Motif 2.0 - The Extensibility Release
* OSF Research Institute (RI) Advanced Development
- Integrating DCE with the Web Talk at DCE User Group
- Securing the Enterprise Web Workshop
- Operating System Research to Demonstrate
Distributed Performance
- Dr. Goldstein Keynotes Web World
- RI at Web-related Conferences
- ANDF Presentation at IR '95 Workshop
* OSF Meetings and Events
- OSF RI Workshop
- Tradeshows
- DCE Developers Conferences
- DCE User and Developer Conference
- 1995 OSF Member Meeting
* DCE User Group Contact and Meeting Information
* Customer Services
- OSF Professional Services in Europe
- European Open Enrollment Training Schedule
- European Open Enrollment Business Partner Training
Schedule
- OSF Documentation
- OSF Customer Service Tear-off Wall Chart
* OSF Calendar of 1995 Major Events
- European Events Calendar for 1995
* OSF Contact Information
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OSF Electronic Bulletin
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A monthly electronic mail news update for OSF Members
from the Open Software Foundation.
Vol 6, Issue 1. January, 1995
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Executive Summary
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* On December 20, 1994, the OSF Japan Vendors Council
announced their formation, explaining their mission and
objectives in a major press release to 150 national press
members and opinion leaders.
* The OSF End User Forum has established a home page in
the World Wide Web to provide information to current and
potential OSF end user members. Look for public
document archives in this page, including information
about End User Forum activities, the members of the OSF
End User Steering Committee and schedules of upcoming
events.
* OSF is hosting its Third Interoperability Festival
(I-FEST '95) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from June 5th
through the 16th. I-FEST provides a large scale, multi-
vendor environment allowing engineers to work closely with
one another to solve interoperability issues on a real-time
interactive basis.
* OSF is setting up a Desktop Special Interest Group
(SIG) mailing list to support interest in the next
release of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and
Motif.
* OSF RI Enterprise Web Workshop scheduled for February
15-16 is more than 50% sold out.
* OSF RI has been pursuing a scalability program to
extend its Operating System (OS) technology for high
performance computing over an inexpensive interconnect
using commodity hardware. A goal is to demonstrate
commodity parallelism using clusters of workstations or
PCs.
* Dr. Ira Goldstein, senior vice president of OSF
Research Institute (RI) keynotes at Web World, Jan. 30-
Feb. 1 in Orlando, FL.
* There will be a European OSF DCE User and Developer
Conference, April 25-27, 1995 at the Wembley Conference
Center in London, UK. There will be featured speakers
and a DCE Product Showcase with several participating
companies displaying their product capabilities to
interoperate over diverse computing environments.
* The next meeting of the Massachusetts DCE Users Group
will be held on January 18, 1995 from 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm
at OSF headquarters in Cambridge, MA.
* Highlights of the OSF European Events Calendar for
1995 are included in this issue of the bulletin.
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OSF and Industry Announcements
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The OSF Japan Vendors Council (OSF/JVC) Announces
Formation
On December 20, 1994, the OSF Japan Vendors Council announced
their formation and explained their mission and objectives in
a major press release to 150 national press members and
opinion leaders.
The OSF Japan Vendors Council is represented by OSF Sponsor
companies and local vendor members; Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC,
Sony, IBM, YHP, DEC, Sunsoft, Novell, ATT GIS, Oki Electric,
Nihon Unisys and Toshiba. OSF/Pacific Operations (OSF/PO) is
the convener of this and serves as facilitator and
information conduit. The X/Open Japan office has been invited
to give regular updates to the steering committee.
The group consists of a steering committee, a DCE technical
working group, a CDE technical working group, a promotion
working group and a Technology Planning group. Each group
meets once per month.
The objectives of the Council are as follows;
1) Develop and promote common definition of open systems
2) Promote awareness of OSF mechanism (PST) & technology to
the Japanese market
3) Explore use of the mechanism for joint projects
- Japan Market specific
- As contribution to worldwide market
4) Provide a forum for dissemination of information from OSF
to Japanese Vendors and from Japanese vendors back to OSF.
The promotion working group has already planned a large booth
at the upcoming Nikkei Open Systems Fair. This booth will
have 11 vendors showing a number of DCE applications,
including Encina, DFS, Tuxedo, ObjectIQ, Encompass, Procyon,
Visual DCE and the DDP demonstration. There will also be a
short video presentation and pamphlet on End User success
stories with DCE.
A comprehensive set of events and activities has been
presented to the OSF/JVC by the OSF PO. Nikkei is the first.
Others include a DCE Developers conference, an I-Lab, an End
User lunch series, Open Line, Interop, Object World, an OSF
Symposium, and other trade shows and seminars.
The Technology Planning group is a group that looks at
Japanese market requirements as well as technologies from
Japanese vendors that might be candidates for PSTs. Each
company has presented their strategy and potential
offerings and over the course of the monthly meetings, a
feasibility and consensus-building discussion will occur.
The press announcement was accompanied by endorsements from
major figures in the market. The Ministry of International
Trade and Industry (MITI) gave an unprecedented endorsement
in a one page letter signed by the Director of Information
Service Industry Division. The OSF Japan End User Steering
Committee Chairman, who is the Executive Manager of NTT's
Network and Information Systems Lab, gave a very strong
endorsement of OSF and encouraged the OSF/JVC to work hard in
accelerating OSF technology-based products to the market. The
Japan Information Systems Users Association also gave a
strong endorsement, as did the Open Client-Server Promotion
Group (OSPG) which is led by IBM.
A Look at OSF's New Organization
With the start of a new year, OSF has made some internal
organizational changes to better serve its membership
and to recognize the contributions made during the past
year. First, the announcement of several well deserved
promotions within OSF:
Ira Goldstein was promoted to Executive Vice President
and Chief Scientist of the OSF Research Institute.
Norma Clark was promoted to Senior Vice President
of Administration and Finance.
Peter Shaw was promoted to Vice President of Marketing
and Sales.
David Lounsbury was promoted to Vice President of
Technologies.
Susan Schlener was promoted to General Counsel and
Director of Legal Services.
Colin Scaife was promoted to Director, European
Operations.
Bob Goldschneider was promoted to Director, U.S.
Operations.
Reporting directly to David Tory, President of OSF, are
Dr. Ira Goldstein, Norma Clarke, Peter Shaw, David
Lounsbury, Susan Schlener and John Morris, Director of
Liaisons.
Following is a layout of the 1995 OSF organization for
your reference:
Ira Goldstein, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist,
Research Institute (RI)
Lori Goldstein-Phipps, Administrative Assistant
Paul Dale, Director, Cambridge RI
Ken Hibbard, Manager, Scalability Projects
Doug Wells, Manager, Real-Time Projects
Marty Hurley, Manager, Trust Projects
Jackie Stewart, Manager, Web Projects
David Black, Architect
Jacques Febvre, Director, Grenoble RI
James Loveluck, Assistant Director
Norma Clarke, Senior Vice President, Administration
and Finance
Donna Etchings, Administrative Assistant
Leo Casey, Corporate Controller and Finance Director
John Eaton, Manager, Facilities
Chris Mar, Manager, Human Resources
Ron Rebeiro, Manager, Computer Facilities
Peter Shaw, Vice President, Marketing and Sales
Kathy Moriconi, Administrative Assistant
Jack Dwyer, Manager, Marketing Communications
Jim Curtin, Director, Pacific Operations-Japan
Bob Goldschneider, Director, US Operations
Colin Scaife, Director, European Operations-Brussels
Cathy Betz, Business Development Manager
Lance Travis, Business Development Manager
John Raleigh, Services Program Manager
Darrell Crow, Business Area Manager - CDE/Motif
Joe Maloney, Business Area Manager - DCE
David Lounsbury, Vice President, Technologies
Terry Landers, CDE Program Coordinator
Maryanne Paratore Talpey, DCE Program Coordinator
Ken Flowers, Manager, Engineering Services
Art Harvey, Manager, Architecture Team
Ray Mazzaferro, Interoperability Programs
Kristen Knotts, Manager, Systems Engineering Group
Sue Schlener, General Counsel and Director of Legal Services
Sharon Russell, Administrative Assistant
John Morris, Director of Liaisons
Lorraine Burrage, Administrative Assistant
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End User Forum Activity
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OSF End User Forum Update
In order to provide more information to current and potential
OSF end user members, we have established an End User Forum
home page in the World Wide Web. We will place public
document archives in this page, including information about
End User Forum activities, the members of the OSF End User
Steering Committee, schedules of upcoming events, etc. If you
have information you would like to contribute (such as case
studies about your end user experiences with OSF
technologies, links to other sources of open systems
information, etc.) please let Ted Hanss know.
You can view the information from any Web browser (Mosaic,
NetScape, Lynx, etc.) via your connection to the Internet.
The link to the End User home page can be found on the OSF
web server under Member Programs at URL:
http://www.osf.org:8001/.
For further information about the OSF End User Forum, contact
Ted Hanss, Chair, End User Steering Committee (ted@umich.edu
or +1 313 763-6185) or Jane Smeloff, OSF Membership Services
(jane@osf.org or +1 617 621-8997). To get on the OSF end
user email list, contact enduser-request@osf.org.
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Technology News Nuggets
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Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Technology
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DCE at UniForum -- Call for Participation
If you have participated with OSF on DCE events in the past,
you know the benefits of working collaboratively to spread
the messages and technology of DCE. If you are new to DCE,
we offer you the chance to get involved in DCE activities
now.
This is to advise you of details for UniForum in March, an
excellent opportunity to interact with fellow vendors and
users of DCE.
UNIFORUM '95
March 14-16, 1995
DALLAS, TX -- Dallas Convention Center
Theme: Solutions for Open Computing
OSF and DCE vendors will be co-producing a DCE Theater, where
users will get an introduction to the DCE business case and
key functionality, as well as the latest information about
DCE tools, applications and end user deployment. The DCE
Theater will be surrounded by an interoperability showcase
with technology solutions from DCE tools and application
vendors. Certified DCE platform implementations will be
showcased; tools and applications that run on certified
platforms will be given precedence over non-certified systems
in booth space allocation.
For information on how to participate in the OSF Booth,
please contact Ray Mazzaferro, email: ram@osf.org.
DCE Product Catalog
The first 1995 edition of OSF's DCE Product Catalog is now
available. This listing provides a view of DCE productization
including system vendor implementations, DCE-based
applications, and services provided to end users building DCE
solutions. The DCE Product Catalog is available on OSF's WWW
server: http//www.osf.org:8001 and hard copies are available
by contacting OSF Direct Channels: direct@osf.org or
617-621-7300.
If you are a systems vendor, software developer, end user, or
service provider and would like to be included in future
editions, you may obtain an entry form by contacting OSF
Direct Channels. Mail the completed form to:
DCE Product Listing
Open Software Foundation
11 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
FAX: 617 621-0631
Email: direct@osf.org
The product catalog will be updated quarterly with the
schedule for 1995 submissions as follows:
Submissions due by ** APRIL 22 ** for Apr. 29 publication.
Submissions due by ** JULY 22 ** for Jul. 29 publication.
Submissions due by ** OCTOBER 21 ** for Oct. 28 publication.
New DCE Case Study
OSF has produced another case study which examines the impact
of DCE on high performance storage systems control. The
study focuses on a collaboration of U.S. DOE laboratories,
industries, universities and other government agencies called
the National Storage Laboratory and its work to bring high-
capacity, high-performance storage and networking technology
together into useful, manageable, distributed, network
storage systems.
The technology case is entitled, "Avoiding Gridlock on the
Information Super Highway" and will be included in the next
OSF Member Mailing. For additional copies, please contact
OSF Direct Channels at direct@osf.org.
Decorum '95 Announcement
February 7-9, 1995
Hyatt Regency La Jolla
La Jolla, CA
Decorum '95 is dedicated to promoting the successful
implementation of client/server computing solutions based on
the DCE model of computing.
Decorum '95 features the largest gathering of DCE users ever
assembled. The three-day program includes five concurrent
tracks with over 75 sessions and 90 speakers. The majority of
the sessions are presented by end-users who are implementing
DCE technologies throughout their environments. This
collection of first-hand experiences on putting real
solutions to work is an opportunity to add to your DCE
knowledge base, dialogue with expert developers and align
your infrastructure with industry vision. In addition to end-
user talks, Decorum'95 offers presentations by the major DCE
systems vendors, independent software vendors and consulting
organizations. These talks are supplemented by a Product
Demonstration Center, showcasing the latest generation of
DCE-based products. During the six days prior to Decorum'95
(February 1-6), Transarc offers a wide variety of training
classes covering DCE, DFS, AFS, Encina and CICS.
For more information on Decorum'95 contact the conference
coordinator at 412 338 6790 or send e-mail to
decorum@transarc.com. To receive a full conference brochure
featuring the complete agenda and abstracts for all
Decorum'95 sessions, be sure to include your name, mailing
address and phone number.
OSF Interoperability Festival (I-FEST)
OSF is hosting its' Third Interoperability Festival
(I-FEST '95) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from June 5th
through the 16th.
OSF's Interoperability Festival (I-FEST), provides a large
scale, multi-vendor environment allowing engineers to work
closely with one another to solve interoperability issues on
a real-time interactive basis. Participants have access to
other vendor systems and their engineers, that may not be
available to them otherwise. Vendors execute OSF designated
tests in specified OSF DCE configurations creating
environments that resemble end user scenarios. Successful
participants will also complete one of the steps towards
achieving OSF DCE Certification for their implementation.
During the first week of the event, participants will test
their DCE implementations bilaterally, in a heterogeneous
environment, against each of the other participants'
platforms using the currently defined testing
requirements, in the applicable client and server
configurations. During the second week, participants' will
perform additional testing of the secure core (i.e., split
and replicated servers), as well as test DFS and
GDS products.
Registration kits and testing requirement information for
I-FEST '95 will be available in early February 1995. For
more information send mail to the contact information below.
OSF DCE Certification Program
The OSF DCE Certification program is a vehicle to ensure end
users that OSF DCE Certified products provide application,
data, and platform interoperability across DCE
implementations. The objective of the OSF DCE Certification
Program is to ensure a consistent level of DCE functional
compliance across all products, where products are defined as
a specific hardware and software configuration.
The DCE certification program certifies the Secure Core,
Distributed File System (DFS) and Global Directory Service
(GDS) components of DCE. The Secure Core component includes
the Threads (THR), Remote Procedure Call (RPC), Security
(SEC), Cell Directory Service (CDS), and the Distributed
Time Service (DTS) components of DCE.
The program consists of three parts:
1. Open Development
The program facilitates "open development" so that vendors
can cooperate in assuring interoperability before reaching
the market place. Participants are encouraged to do
comprehensive interoperability testing in multiple scenarios
and configurations and make OSF Interoperability Program
testing an integral component of their own testing.
2. Validation Test Suite (VTS)
The applicant must submit to OSF a Statement of Conformance
that their product fully complies with the OSF Application
Environment Specification / Distributed Computing (AES/DC).
The AES/DC specifies a comprehensive set of application-level
interfaces, as well as the associated semantics and
protocols, necessary to provide portable and interoperable
implementations and applications.
The OSF DCE Validation Test Suite (VTS) tests the conformance
of a vendor's DCE implementation against the portability and
interoperability specifications described in the AES/DC.
These specifications cover the syntax and semantics of the
Application Programmer's Interface (API), describe how
implementations of the client and server runtimes
communicate, describe a set of abstract services that the
runtime must implement, and specify the conformance
requirements that conforming implementations must meet.
Successful passage of the VTS is a requirement for
certification. A product successfully passes the VTS if the
entire test suite can run on the platform being certified
with no failures other than those that are explicitly waived
by OSF.
3. Interoperability Festival (I-FEST)
Another requirement for certification is to attend the OSF
Interoperability Festival (I-FEST) with the platform being
certified. Participants must successfully achieve the
testing requirements, in the applicable client and server
configurations, for the I-FEST event. For more information
about the I-FEST event see the description above.
Those products that submit the Statement of Conformance,
successfully run the VTS, and complete the I-FEST
requirements are authorized to display OSF's DCE
certification seal for that product.
For more information about OSF's Interoperability Festival or
OSF's DCE Certification Program please contact:
Raymond A. Mazzaferro
Interoperability Program Manager
Open Software Foundation Phone: 617-621-8869
11 Cambridge Center Fax #: 617-225-2943
Cambridge, MA 02142 Email: ram@osf.org,
uunet!osf.org!ram
European DCE Success Story
"The following letter has been reproduced with the
authorization of 'Computing,' the IT weekly magazine."
Written by Alasdair Arthur, System Architect, Mercury, UK,
the letter is entitled, "Vendors Spread Database Doubt." It
has been taken from the December 1, 1994 issue.
As someone who has been running an investigation into
distributed computing environments (DCE) for most of this
year (1994), I was interested to read the comments of the
various database vendors (Computing, 11/3/94).
The statement that DCE was 'touted as a way to add security
and administration capabilities to databases' is fine as far
as it goes, but DCE has rather wide ambitions, it is intended
to form the glue that allows a very wide variety of systems
and platforms to interoperate.
Databases are only one of the many things which can be
brought within the DCE fold. The comments of the database
vendors betray a view of the world in which the database is
central to all aspects of systems architecture.
Several of these companies have successfully promoted their
products' ability to provide cross-platform portability and
interoperability. For many users to free themselves of this
sort of proprietary approach while reaping the benefits of
interoperability. Being vendor-independent is in the
interest of early adopters of the technology.
One of the striking aspects of the article was the way in
which the database vendors announced that they were
developing DCE products, while at the same time doing their
best to spread a bit of fear, uncertainty and doubt around
the whole subject.
These companies are not adding DCE capabilities because they
can't think of anything better for their developer to do -
they are doing it because their customers are asking for
them.
The remark from the Oracle spokesperson that 'our proprietary
technology is superior to DCE' misses the point rather
spectacularly. From an end user's viewpoint, this a
contradiction in terms - a proprietary technology is, almost
by definition, a bad way of achieving multi-vendor
interoperability.
The comment from Ovum that DCE requires huge resources on
the PC is also rather peculiar. Admittedly, I speak only
from experience, rather than as a consultant, but we have not
found any such thing at Mercury after several months of
looking.
DCE is still a relatively new technology, and it is best
employed as part as a well thought-out architecture. It is
not the sort of thing that can be employed without some
forethought and preparation. But, in our experience, it does
deliver on its promise to provide genuine interoperability.
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OSF/Motif Highlights - User Environment Technology
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Desktop Interest Group
During 1994, OSF transitioned to a co-operative development
model for existing and new technologies. To this end,
several sponsors have worked to define the next release of
the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and Motif. The draft
proposal of the requirements was presented to the OSF
membership at the SuperSig meeting. This raised the need for
the UEC SIG to reconsider its charter and direction. It was
proposed that the SIG reconstitute itself with a wider
charter and interest as pertains to the entire Desktop
Environment. OSF has been setting up a mailing list to
support this interest and if you would like to participate,
please email crow@osf.org with the appropriate email address.
We'll be sending information on this list with specifics
regarding the first SIG meeting.
Working in OSF for the CDE/Motif PST is Terry Landers, the
Program Manager for the CDE/Motif Next project, Martha
Hester, the Quality Advocate and Darrell Crow, the Business
Area Manager. Questions about this Desktop Special Interest
Group can be emailed to crow@osf.org.
OSF/MOTIF 2.0 -- The Extensibility Release
If you haven't heard about OSF/Motif 2.0, it is a major
functional release from OSF in 1994 that incorporates many
improvements over R. 1.2. The 2.0 user environment offers a
more powerful base on which to create sophisticated
applications for worldwide markets.
A thumbnail sketch includes the following:
- New extensibility features that make building widgets
easier than ever
- Seven new widgets including: container, notebook and
combobox
- UIL support of 64-bit architectures
- MWM support for virtual screen and workspace management
protocols
- Revised Style Guide: converges windows, CUA, CDE,
OSF/Motif styles
- New CD-ROM distribution for OSF/Motif 2.0.
Also available from OSF is a new release of the OSF/Motif
Validation Test Suite (VTS), for validating OSF/Motif 2.0
against the latest Application Environment Specification.
This comprehensive release is the basis of the OSF/Motif
Certification and Trademark program as well as a valuable aid
to your quality assurance process. You can obtain the
details of the certification requirements by sending email to
crow@osf.org.
Pricing for OSF/Motif 2.0 remains the same as Motif 1.2, but
offers additional cost-saving options including low prices
for single user systems and for shipping applications with
DLLs. Complete technical and licensing information can be
obtained by contacting OSF/Direct at either direct@osf.org or
617-621-7300, or contact Darrell Crow at crow@osf.org.
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OSF Research Institute Update
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Integrating DCE with the Web Talk Scheduled for January 18
Massachusetts DCE Users Group
OSF RI invites members to the January 18 DCE Users Group at
the Cambridge headquarters, where Steve Lowontin, RI
Engineer, will report on an OSF RI research project to
develop a prototype implementation of the World Wide Web over
DCE. OSF RI has developed a DCE toolkit that allows existing
Web browsers and servers to be easily ported as DCE
applications. The DCE Web makes use of the DCE security
services to provide data integrity and privacy protection and
ACL-based access control to Web documents. It also makes use
of the DCE name services to provide location-independent
lookup of Web documents via DCE URLs. We believe that the
DCE Web may be well-suited for Web installations on
enterprise networks. RSVP to Jaqui Lynch, lynch@cleo.bc.edu
to reserve your seat at the meeting.
For more information about the Massachusetts DCE Users group
and for a complete meeting agenda, access the Web URL:
http://dceusers.bc.edu/dceusers/meetings.html
Additional information about OSF RI's DCE Web project and
recent research papers can be viewed at URL:
http://riwww.osf.org:8001/www/dceweb/DCE-Web-Home-Page.html,
or email ri_lit_request@osf.org.
OSF RI Enterprise Web Workshop--More Than 50% Sold Out
In case you missed our first bulletin, we want to alert you
that the OSF RI's February 15-16 workshop, Securing the
Enterprise Web: Groupware for the Web, Web Mail and DCE Web
Security, is more than 50% sold out.
The following organizations have registered to attend:
* Boeing Computer Services * Citicorp North America
* Department of Defense * GM Hughes Electronics
* Institute of Defense Analysis * NIST
* National Institute of Health * IXI
* Schlumberger * Tandem Computers Inc.
* The MITRE Corporation * U.S. West Technologies
* Shell International Petroleum
If you're concerned about improving enterprise network
efficiency while safeguarding your information, you'll want
to attend this new OSF members-only workshop, Securing the
Enterprise Web, offered by the OSF RI, February 15-16, at OSF
corporate headquarters in Cambridge, MA.
What will you learn?
The workshop is a combination of research result prototypes
ready for members to build upon and research results that
will become available in 1995. Taught by OSF RI architects
and senior engineers, you'll learn:
* What's good about the Web, Web security, and where it
falls short
* Who's using Web security and what are they using it for
* Today's Web security solutions and the problems they
solve
* Web security risks and proposed solutions
* Encryption and protocols built on encryption
* DCE Web security tools supporting secure transactions
* Applying DCE security and access control features to the
Web
* Managing Web pages using DCE fine grained access control
* A vehicle for distributing application software that is
customized to the hardware/software environment of the
Web user
* Demonstrations of DCE Web security tools, groupware-
focused Web features such as Web Mail, and other Web-
related OSF RI research programs
* Unfolding the future - Emerging OSF RI innovations
What else do you get?
To encourage the transfer of RI technology to OSF members,
you will receive a discount on OSF research snapshots of Web-
related prototypes if purchased at or within 30 days of the
workshop. You'll receive prototype snapshots worth $3,000
for only $995! The package includes:
* DCE Web snapshot program
* Web Mail snapshot program
* Web groupware server snapshot program.
Who should attend?
* Strategic enterprise network designers, network managers,
DCE developers, and Web server administrators
* Enterprise groups exploring the Web and DCE cells as a
way to communicate between departments, customers,
members and/or suppliers
What's the agenda?
Tentative Agenda
Wednesday, February 15 - Day 1
8:45-9:00 Welcome/Introduction/OSF RI
9:00-9:45 WWW in the enterprise
9:45-10:30 Web Architecture
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Web and network security today
and web security analysis
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Public key encryption - Allan Shiffman, ETI
2:30-3:15 Web security with DCE
3:15-3:45 Break
3:45-4:15 Tools for reading and writing on the Web
4:15-6:30 Demos open
6:45-9:30 Group Dinner. An opportunity to interact
with your peers and OSF RI experts.
Thursday, February 16 - Day 2
8:45-9:00 Welcome back/Today's agenda
9:00-9:45 Enhancing the Web with groupware
9:45-10:30 Web mail
10:30-10:45 Break
10:30-11:15 Guest speaker - Win Treese, Open Market
11:15-12:00 Group servers, OREO, Ariadne browsers
Case study-data intensive Web-based
application
12:00:1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:15 Distributing applications via the Web
2:15-3:00 Future directions
3:00 PM Workshop end
Where will it be held?
We developed this workshop in response to members' requests
during the November OSF Super*SIG*Week meeting in Boston.
The workshop will be held at OSF headquarters, 11 Cambridge
Center, Cambridge, MA, for OSF members only, and it is
limited to the first 50 who register. Contact the hotel
directly for rooms at 617-494-6600 or fax 617-494-0036
Workshop Registration Fees
Fee: $300 - OSF Members
We expect their to be a waiting list for this workshop, so
register today!
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Registration form
Securing the Enterprise Web:
Groupware for the Web, Web Mail and DCE Web Security
February 15-16, 1995, OSF, Cambridge, MA
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Operating System Research--Demonstrates Good Distributed
Performance over an Inexpensive Interconnect Using Commodity
Hardware
OSF Research Institute (RI) has been pursuing a scalability
program to extend operating system (OS) technology for high
performance computing. The RI has successfully transferred
its OS technology to a number of MPP vendors over the past 2
years. The RI is now involved in a program to demonstrate
that scalable systems can be constructed from affordable
commodity hardware. A goal is to demonstrate commodity
parallelism using clusters of workstations or PCs.
OSF RI will serve as a beta site for AT&T's new 4-way MP
Pentium machine under development. We are pleased to have
been selected by AT&T to participate in this beta test and
are looking forward to providing useful feedback to AT&T's
engineering team. We expect to use the machines in OSF RI's
SCSI Cluster Program.
The primary objective of the OSF Research Institute SCSI
Cluster Program is to demonstrate that good distributed
performance could be achieved over an inexpensive
interconnect using commodity hardware.
A secondary objective is to test and validate the flexibility
of a distributed Mach IPC service over a variety of
interconnects ranging from the very slow to the very fast
(e.g. ethernet (10mb), SCSI (20MB), and Paragon mesh (200MB))
Three node clusters have successfully been constructed. The
kernel and server are fully functional.
Results on the Pentium machines configured as a SCSI cluster
include:
- Successful demonstration of a prototype cluster system
that is affordable. It has been constructed with a
standard SCSI-2 interconnect. Performance data shows that
we can achieve throughput that far exceeds 100 Mbps
ethernet or FDDI. Furthermore, we are pushing into the
performance domain generally reserved for ATM.
- Additionally, Mach IPC is now functional over the SCSI
interconnect. We believe this is an effective
demonstration of the modularity of Mach IPC service.
A report on the other interconnects will be presented during
the February 2, 1995, OSF RI Operating System Advisory Board
Meeting.
For additional information on this research project contact
Ken Hibbard, <hibbard@osf.org>.
Dr. Goldstein Keynotes at Web World, Jan 30-Feb 1
Dr. Ira Goldstein, vice president of research and advanced
development for OSF, will present "Wither Wanders the Web and
Why," an interesting look at publishing on the Web, January
30, in a keynote address at WEB WORLD conference and
Exposition, Orlando, Florida. The full conference agenda and
registration details can be viewed at URL:
http://www.ocm.com/dci/webworld/ or contact DCI at 508-470-
3880.
OSF RI Boosts Presence at Web-related Conferences in '95
The Web World Conference and Expositions, January 30 -
February 1, 1994, in Orlando, Florida, is one of the
many Web and Internet-related conferences, workshops and
seminars in which OSF plans to participate or sponsor
this year. Both OSF members and customers of OSF
members will want to watch for events being held in your
area about the rapid developments taking place in the
OSF RI's Web-related research areas including DCE Web
security, Groupware for the Web, and Web Mail.
Mark your calendars now for these 1995 OSF-sponsored Web
conferences:
1995
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April 10-14 Third International World-Wide Web
Conference, Darmstadt, Germany
April 29- AusWeb95 - Australia Regional WWW
May 2 Conference Balina, New South Wales,
Australia
Dec. 11-14 Fourth International World-Wide Web
Conference, Boston, MA
The '95 World-Wide Web (WWW) Conferences will include:
* tutorials where both beginners and experts can gain
new skills,
* reviewed papers presented by Web practitioners about
their most recent work,
* special sessions for developers to discuss the
evolution of the technology in this field, and
* demonstrations of the latest, hottest technology and
products.
More details about each OSF-sponsored Web conference can
be found in the OSF RI Web pages under "Conferences" at
URL:
http://riwww.osf.org:8001/index.html
ANDF Presentation at Intermediate Representations (IR)
'95 Workshop
OSF members following ANDF developments will want to
note this opportunity to hear about the latest ANDF
results. Members of the ANDF Team from the OSF RI in
Grenoble will present a paper "Validation of ANDF
Components" at the January 22 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop at IR
'95. IR '95 will be held in conjunction with the 22nd
Annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles Of
Programming Languages (POPL '95), January 23-25, 1995,
in San Francisco, CA. For conference registration
information, consult the World Wide Web URL:
http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/analysts/mern
st/ir95.html
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OSF Meetings and Events
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OSF RI Workshop
Registration is being accepted for the OSF RI Workshop
Securing the Enterprise Web: Groupware for the Web, Web
Mail and DCE Web Security February 15-16, 1995 at OSF in
Cambridge, MA.
Space is limited to the *first 50 members who register.
For a registration form email, fax or call:
E-mail to: <registrar@osf.org>,
FAX or mail to:
Registrar, OSF Research Institute
11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-621-7339; FAX 617-621-8696
Tradeshows
OSF will have booths at the following Trade Shows:
UniForum '95 DALLAS, TX March 14-16, 1995
- Dallas Convention Center
Theme: Solutions for Open Computing
Unix Expo '95 NY, NY September 19-21, 1995
- Jacob Javits Convention Center
Theme: Enterprising Solutions for the Open Systems
Age"
Please contact Ray Mazzaferro <ram@osf.org> if you are
interested in being a guest exhibitor in the OSF booth.
DCE Developer Conferences
Reserve your seats for the 1995 DCE Developer's
Conferences
These conferences address the needs of new or
experienced DCE users, developers, and vendors by
providing information in a variety of forms.
They combine in-depth tutorials with a multi-track
conference schedule in the areas of DCE Technology, DCE
Deployment, DCE Success Stories, and DCE Product/Tools.
They also include a Solutions Showcase where
participating companies display their products'
abilities to interoperate over a wide range of diverse
computing environments.
April 11-13, 1995 - San Jose Red Lion Hotel
August 21-23, 1995 - Westin Hotel Boston
Call DCI for registration information: 508-470-3870
OSF DCE User and Developer Conference in Europe
An OSF DCE User and Developer Conference will be held
April 25-27, 1995 at the Wembley Conference Center in
London, UK.
Featured speakers include Tony Richardson, British
Telecommunications; Wim Delvaux, Kredietbank; Martin
Brewer, Mercury Communications; Jonathan Chinitz,
Intellisoft; John Dilley, Hewlett-Packard and Harold
Lockhart, Onsett International.
The DCE Product Showcase features hands-on demonstrations of
DCE-based products. Following are participating companies
scheduled to display their products capabilities to
interoperate over a wide range of diverse computing
environments:
DynaSoft Dynamic Software AB
HaL Computer Systems
Hewlett-Packard
IBM Corporation
Kapsch AG
Open Environment
Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme
SunSoft, Inc.
Transarc Corporation...and more.
Whether you are a new or experienced DCE user, developer or
vendor, this skill-building event is one you and members of
your organization should not miss. Please share this
information with your colleagues.
We have a full color brochure covering the full three-day
conference. The brochure includes information on four
conference tracks: DCE Technology, DCE Deployment,
DCE Success Stories, DCE Product/Tools. We will send
this brochure via conventional mail, so be sure to include
your full mailing address. If you give us your telephone
and fax number, you are sure to be kept up to date about
last minute speaker additions.
For your copy of the brochure, or for information on
registration, send an email to 74511.1606@compuserve.com
or 74511,1606. Please use the priority code GWAOZ00 in
your subject line. (NOTE: OSF has negotiated a
discount of 20% for its members attending the European
Event. To benefit from this offer, your registration
needs to be in before April 3, 1995.)
Let us know what your interest is in OSF DCE. Would
you be interested in attending this event? Why or Why
not?
1995 OSF Member Meeting
Mark your calendars NOW to attend the 1995 OSF Member
Meeting!
The annual Member Meeting will be held at the Westin
Hotel Copley in Boston, MA on Wednesday, May 31 through
Friday, June 2, 1995. This is the week following
Memorial Day. Why not consider spending Memorial Day
with your family in historic Boston. The Westin Hotel
will extend the special guest rate of $149.00 for three
days prior to and after the meeting dates.
For hotel reservations call: 1-800-228-3000 or 617-262-
9600. Be sure to mention you are attending the "OSF
Member Meeting".
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DCE User Group Contact and Meeting Information
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UNITED STATES
Arizona DCE Users Group
for information, contact
Michael J. Danley mdanley@next3.corp.mot.com
602-441-2887
Bay Area, Forming, contact Open Horizon,
Dipak Basu at 415-593-0298
or email: dbasu@openhorizon.com
Denver Area, Chris House, US West at 303-762-3098 or
fax: 303-762-3138 or
email: cmhouse@indss1.exte.uswc.uswest.com
Massachusetts DCE Users Group
For information, contact
Jaqui Lynch email: lynch@cleo.bc.edu
Web Page: http://dceusers.bc.edu
Massachusetts Meeting Information
The next meeting will be held on January 18, 1995
from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at OSF, 11 Cambridge
Center, Cambridge, MA. It is important that you RSVP
to me at lynch@cleo.bc.edu, so that we can be sure
there are sufficient seats.
Agenda:
1:00 p.m. Welcome
1:30 p.m. Stephen Lewontin, OSF will speak on the
DCE Web
2:30 p.m. John Caron from OEC will speak on Making
DCE Easy
3:30 p.m. Robert A. Kalka, Jr. from IBM will speak
on Mainframe DCE Solutions.
4:30 p.m. Closing Comments
If you can't make the January meeting, plan now to
attend the March 23, 1995 meeting. This meeting will
be held at IBM in Waltham in room 5a from 1:00 p.m.
to 5:00 p.m. Although the agenda is still being
developed, it will include Art Gaylord from the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who will speak
on Project Pilgrim. Suggestions or offers to speak
are always willingly received.
For anyone who has asked about how to join this
group, if you are getting this email, then you are a
member! Also, if you want to be added to the MA DCE
Users Group membership list, then you need to send me
an email requesting if along with the information you
want listed. The format that I'm using is: Name,
Company, email address. I am not listing people
unless they ask, since not everyone wants their email
address publicized.
Don't forget to keep an eye on the Web for periodical
updates. The access URL is: http://dceusers.bc.edu.
In the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) contact:
William A. Estrem
3M
Information Architecture Department
224-4E-21
3M Center
St Paul, MN 55144-1000
Office: 612-736-6853 Fax: 612-733-3502
waestrem@mmm.com
New York City DCE Users Group
for information, contact
Ilya Goldberg email: goldberg_ilya@jpmorgan.com
Voice: 212-235-5206
Web Page: http://www.osf.org:8001/dce/user-
groups/ny/
New York Meeting Information
Times: 5:30PM on the second Wednesday of every even
month
Next Meeting: Wed., Feb. 15 at 5:30PM. (This
meeting is on the third Wednesday due to Decorum
which is being held Feb. 7-9)
Seattle, contact:
Dick Tennent
Boeing
Voice: 206-865-3613 Fax: 206-865-6903
tennent@espresso.rt.cs.boeing.com
Washington (DC) Area Distributed Computing Users Group
For information: e-mail wa-dce-users@osf.org
or contact:
Laks Prabhala
Hughes Applied Information Systems
NASA ECS Program
Office: 301-925-0431 Fax: 301-925-0327
Email: laks@eos.hitc.com
EUROPE
London Linda Sawyer
Tel. 44 818 18 4444
A meeting is scheduled for January 18.
Paris (France)
Pierre-Louis Neumann
INRIA Rocquencourt
BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX, France
Tel. 33 1 39 63 55 62 Fax 33 1 39 63 50 34
Pierre-Louis.Neumann@inria.fr
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OSF Professional Services in Europe
From our Brussels office, the OSF Europe Professional
Services group reviews IT strategy and architecture,
supports the set-up of DCE cells and prototypes, and
provides advice on the design of distributed
applications. The group is actively involved in several
large DCE pilot projects, mainly in the financial and
telecom arena. To this end, we are providing consulting
services with emphasis on security and distributed
management issues.
For more information on the European Professional
Service offerings, contact Yair Melamud, Director of
Customer Services, Europe.
Please note that when exporting DCE you must comply with
all applicable laws, rules, and regulations relating to
the export or re-export of technical data.
European Open Enrollment Training Schedule
A 1-day course on Motif 2.0 update has been scheduled
in Brussels on January 19, 1995. The course is
intended for experienced Motif Programmers and users.
It will cover general features, specific end user and
developers features and an hour CDE overview.
Please note that due to circumstances beyond our
control, classes are sometimes canceled. If we must
cancel a class, we will contact you promptly.
OSF DCE System Administration with lab
Grenoble, Belgium Apr 24-28
OSF DCE Internals Architecture
Brussels, Belgium Jun 12-16
OSF Understanding DCE
Brussels, Belgium Jan 23-24
Grenoble, France Mar 6-7
OSF DCE Application Programming with lab
Brussels, Belgium Feb 13-17
Motif 2.0 Update
Brussels, Belgium Jan 19
OSF Managing Distributed Systems
Brussels, Belgium Jan 25-26
Grenoble, France Mar 8-9
Register for courses in Brussels and Grenoble by
contacting Yair Melamud, OSF Brussels.
OSF European Open Enrollment Business Partner Training
Schedule
FINSIEL S.p.A.
via del Ponte di Piscina Cupa, 43
00128 Roma - Casta Romano
Italy
The OSF training courses held in Italy are delivered by
Finsiel, OSF's Business Partner, and are given in
Italian. For details and registration, please contact:
Valerio Romano of Finsiel
Phone: +39 81 7611900, fax: +39 81 668335
Email: <vromano@tecsiel.it>
CRP-CU : Current Open Enrollment Schedule:
CRP-CU
162a, Avenue de la Faiencerie
L-1511, Luxembourg
The ongoing courses held in Luxembourg are delivered by
CRP-CU, OSF's Business Partner, and are given in French.
For details and registration, please contact:
Pierre Mousel of CRP-CU
Phone: +352 47 02 61 370, fax: +352 47 02 64,
Email: <mousel@crpcu.lu>
KAPSCH : Current Open Enrollment Training Schedule
KAPSCH AG
Wagenseilgasse 1
A-1120 Vienna, Austria
OSF DCE 1.0.2 Features and Functionality
Vienna Jan 18
Vienna Mar 30
Vienna Jun 13
Vienna Sep 21
Vienna Nov 2
Vienna Dec 4
OSF DME Features and Functionality
Vienna Jan 19
Vienna Mar 31
Vienna Jun 14
Vienna Sep 22
Vienna Nov 3
Vienna Dec 5
OSF DCE Administration System
Vienna Feb 6-10
Vienna Apr 24-28
Vienna Jun 26-30
Vienna Oct 2-6
Vienna Nov 13-17
OSF DCE Application Programming with labs
Vienna Jan 23-27
Vienna Apr 3-7
Vienna Jun 19-23
Vienna Sep 25-29
Vienna Nov 6-10
OSF DCE Internals Architecture
Vienna Feb 20-24
Vienna Nov 20-24
The OSF training courses held in Austria are delivered
by KAPSCH, OSF's Business Partner, and are given in
German. For details and registration, please contact:
Miss Micheler of KAPSCH
Phone: +43 1 81 111 2601, fax: +43 1 81 111 3010,
Email : <Natascha.Micheler@kapsch.co.at>
QA : Current Open Enrollment Training Schedule
QA Training Ltd
Cecily Hill Castle
UK - Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 2EF
United Kingdom
OSF DCE 1.0.2 Features and Functionality
London Jan 16
Cirencester Mar 20
London May 15
OSF DCE System Administration
London Jan 23-17
Cirencester Mar 20-24
London May 22-26
OSF DCE Application Programming with labs
London Jan 30-Feb 3
Cirencester Mar 27-31
London Jun 5-9
OSF/Motif Programming
London Feb 13-17
Cirencester Apr 24-28
London Jun 26-30
The OSF training courses held in the UK are delivered by
QA, OSF's Business Partner, and are given in English.
For details and registration, please contact:
Lynne Rollings
Phone: +44 285 655 888, fax: +44 285 650 537,
Email : <LRolling@qatrain.mhs.compuserve.com>
SYCOMORE : Current Open Enrollment Training Schedule
Sycomore
31 place des Corolles
Cedex 31
F - 92098 Paris la Defense
DCE Features and Functionality
Paris Feb 2
Paris Mar 9
Paris Jun 8
Paris Sep 28
Paris Nov 30
DCE Application Programming
Paris Feb 6-10
Paris Mar 13-17
Paris Jun 12-16
Paris Oct 2-6
Paris Dec 4-8
DCE System Administration
Paris Mar 20-24
Paris Jun 19-23
Paris Oct 9-13
Paris Dec 11-15
The OSF training courses held in France are delivered by
Sycomore, OSF's Business Partner, and are given in
French. For details and registration, please contact:
Stephane Moriceau of Sycomore
Phone: +33 1 41 26 46 71, fax: +44 1 41 26 46 47,
Email: <stephane.moriceau@sycomore.fr>
OSF Documentation
Watch for DCE 1.1 documentation. We expect the DCE 1.1
documentation set to be available in January.
Titles include:
Intro to DCE
Command Reference
Admin Guide Vol 1: Introduction
Vol 2: Core Services
DFS Admin Guide and Reference
GDS Admin Guide and Reference
Problem Determination Guide
App Dev Reference
App Dev Guide Vol 1: Introduction and Style Guide
Vol 2: Core Services
Vol 3: Directory Services
Call OSF for more information and pricing.
Documentation and books may be ordered from OSF Direct
Channels (USA), Christine Mambourg (Europe), and Haruyo
Nogami (Pacific Rim).
OSF Service Tear-off Wall Chart
Jim Curtin, Director, Pacific Operations
Phone: +81-3-3479-4740 Fax: +81-3-3479-4760
Email: jim@osf.org
Colin Scaife, Director, European Operations
Phone: +32-2-772-88-88 Fax: +32-2-772-92-28
Email: scaife@osf.org
Bob Goldschneider, Director, U.S. Operations
Phone: 617-621-8778 Fax: 617-621-0631
Email: bobg@osf.org
Kathie Dawe, Direct Channels, Western Region/Canada
Phone: 617-621-7300 Fax: 617-621-0306
Email: direct@osf.org
Tom Klejna, Professional Services, Cambridge, MA, USA
Phone: 617-621-7243 Fax: 617-621-0631
Email: ttk@osf.org
Kristen Knotts, Manager, Systems Engineering
Phone: 617-621-7271 Fax: 617-621-0631
Email: kjk@osf.org
Maribeth Llopiz, Direct Channels, Eastern Region
Phone: 617-621-7300 Fax: 617-621-0306
Email: direct@osf.org
Christine Mambourg, OSF Brussels
Phone: +32 2 772 8888 Fax: +32 2 772 9228
Email: mambourg@osf.org
Yair Melamud, Director, Customer Service, Europe
Phone: +32 2 772 8888 Fax: +32 2 772 9228
email: ym@osf.org
Haruyo Nogami, OSF Tokyo, Customer Service
Phone: +81 3 3479 4740 Fax: +81 3 3479 4760
Email: nogami@osf.org
John Raleigh, OSF, Cambridge, Manager, Customer Service
Phone: 617-621-7290 Fax: 617-621-0631
Email: jsr@osf.org
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OSF Calendar of 1995 Major Events
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Members interested in learning more about OSF
technologies should check the OSF Calendar for
local events featuring OSF presentations. Below is a
listing of events, activities, and presentations where
you can hear more about OSF.
1995
January 23-25 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on
Principles of Programming Languages
(POPL '95) & Intermediate
Representations '95 Workshop
San Francisco, CA
January 30- Web World Conference
February 1 Orlando, Florida
February 7-9 DECORUM '95
La Jolla, CA
February 13-16 TINA: Telecom & Distrib.
Melbourne, Australia
February 14-16 Network Expo
Boston, MA
February 15-16 OSF RI's Securing the
Enterprise Web Workshop
OSF Cambridge, MA
February 16-17 Internet Society
San Diego, CA
February 20-24 International Conference on Open
Distributed Process (ICODP):
Brisbane, Australia
March 6-7 Research Issues in Data Engineering
(RIDE) Dist. Obj. Mgmt.
Taipei, Taiwan
March 14-16 UNIFORUM '95
Dallas, TX
March 28-30 Networld + Interop '95
Las Vegas, NV
April 2-5 ISSA: Dist. Comp./Sec.
Toronto, Ontario
April 10-14 World-Wide Web Spring '95
Darmstadt, Germany
April 11-13 DCE Developer's Conference
San Jose, CA
April 24-25 OSF RI Spring Symposium
Cambridge, MA
April 24-29 SANS-IV
Washington, D.C.
April 29-May 2 AusWeb 95 - Australia
Regional WWW Conference
New South Wales
May 1-5 IFIP/IEEE
Santa Barbara, CA
May 2-5 HPCN Europe
Milan, Italy
May 31-2 OSF Member Meeting
Boston, MA
August 21-23 DCE Developer's Conference
Boston, MA
September 19-21 UNIX Expo
New York
December 11-14 Fourth International
World-Wide Web Conference Fall '95
Boston, MA
European Events Calendar for 1995
Focus group meetings are scheduled to provide a forum for
exchanging information and experience on DCE, on implementing
the technology and related topics. They will include an
update from OSF, a customer case study, etc.
There will be one or two Focus Group meetings in the
Scandinavian countries (dates and places are to be
determined).
18 January 1995 DCE Focus Group Meetings
London, UK
22 March 1995 OSF Update Meeting
London, UK *
19 April 1995 DCE Focus Group Meetings
London, UK
25-27 April 1995 ** DCE User and Developer Conference
Wembley Conference Center, UK
19 July 1995 DCE Focus Group Meetings
London, UK
27-28 Sept. 1995 ** European Symposium in Paris *
29 Sept. OSF Update Meeting in Paris *
18 October 1995 DCE Focus Group Meetings
London, UK
(*) exact place to be determined
(**) for OSF members and non-members
(!!) Can be subject to changes without prior notice.
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OSF Contact Information
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OSF Main Number: (617) 621-8700 Fax: (617) 621-0631
OSF Direct Channels: (617) 621-7300 or direct@osf.org
Business Area Managers:
DCE Joe Maloney: (617) 621-7234 or maloney@osf.org
Motif Darrell Crow:(617) 621-7278 or crow@osf.org
DME Lance Travis:(617) 621-8822 or cmt@osf.org
OSF/1 Jack Dwyer: (617) 621-7246 or dwyer@osf.org
OSF RI Main Number: (617) 621-7340 Fax: (617) 621-8696
OSF France RI Main: 011-33-76-63-48-63
Fax: 011-33-76-51-05-32
U.S. Field Operations:
West Rod Johnson:(415) 948-1171 or johnson@osf.org
East Bob Goldschneider:(617)621-8778 or bobg@osf.org
Europe Operations:
Colin Scaife:011-32-2-772-88 88 or scaife@osf.org
Fax: 011-32-2-772-92-28
Pacific Operations:
Jim Curtin: 011-813-3479-4740 or jim@osf.org
Fax: 011-813-3479-4760
The Open Software Foundation is a not-for-profit
research and development organization Headquartered in
Cambridge, Massachusetts with more than 400 members
worldwide.
Copyright 1995, Open Software Foundation, Inc. All
rights reserved. Redistribution of this bulletin to
non-OSF members is prohibited without the express
written permission of OSF. OSF, OSF/1, OSF/Motif, Motif
and Open Software Foundation are trademarks of Open
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