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OSF Electronic Flash
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Date: Thursday, September 1, 1994
To: OSF Members
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Open Software Foundation
Subject: OSF DCE Developer's Conference Press Release
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OSF ELECTRONIC FLASH
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An electronic mail flash for OSF Members from the Open
Software Foundation
September 1, 1994
CONTACT : Jane Smeloff
Open Software Foundation
(617) 621-8997
OSF DCE Developer's Conference Receives Rave Reviews
Unprecedented event, more than 700 in attendance
CAMBRIDGE, MA August 31, 1994 -- The Open Software
Foundation today announced that the OSF Distributed
Computing Environment (DCE) Developer's Conference, held
this week in Boston at the Westin Hotel, was viewed as
an overwhelming success. The conference consisted of
approximately 50 technical sessions that were divided
into four tracks focusing on DCE technology, deployment,
tools and products, and end-user success stories.
The event also included a Solutions Showcase that
featured hands-on demonstrations of DCE-based products
that interoperate over a wide range of computing
environments. Companies that participated in the
showcase included: AT&T Global Information Solutions,
Bull Worldwide Information Systems, Digital, Gradient
Technologies, Inc., Greenbrier & Russel, Inc., HaL
Software Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Independence
Technologies, Inc., Intermetrics, Open Environment
Corporation, Open Horizon, PowerSoft, SunSoft and
Transarc.
"OSF's DCE Developer's Conference was extremely well
organized, well implemented and well attended," said Dr.
Ivan Ruzic, Director of Product Marketing TUXEDO Systems
at Novell. "Novell is very pleased to have used this
venue to announce the availability of their DCE-based
TUXEDO product. We believe that OSF-sponsored events
such as this are vital to evangelizing the importance
and benefits of DCE to general purpose distributed
computing."
"My perception of DCE before this event was that it was
accelerating, but now, with this large turnout, I think
DCE's growth is exponential," said Robert J. Holtgraver,
Jr., Senior Staff Systems Architect at Alcoa. "I've run
into a lot of people doing exactly what I'm doing; we've
reached critical mass, and we can now share experiences.
The vendor showcase made it clear that there are
sufficient tools to start building DCE solutions,"
continued Holtgraver.
"I was very impressed with the program, considering that
this was the first DCE Developer's Conference," said
Dave Chappell, Principal of Chappell & Associates, a
training and consulting firm focused on vendor-neutral
networking. "This is a strong indication of DCE's
probability of success."
The event was organized to educate both new and
experienced DCE users, developers and vendors. Areas
that were addressed entailed; design, implementation,
deployment, administration and management of distributed
systems. Sessions were conducted by some of the most
prominent industry experts. Special one-day technical
seminars were also offered during the conference that
focused on the technology and DCE application
development.
This was the first of a series of world-wide DCE
Developer Conferences that will be managed by Digital
Consulting, Inc. (DCI).
The Open Software Foundation delivers open systems
technology with the objective of enabling people to
exploit information technology to improve the way they
do business. OSF supplies software to make information
technology easier to learn and easier to use, while
enabling various vendors' equipment to work together,
sharing applications and information across distributed
open computing environments. OSF has created a coalition
of vendors and users who work together to provide the
best available open systems technologies. Headquartered
in Cambridge, MA, with offices in Brussels, Grenoble and
Tokyo, OSF has more than 400 members worldwide.
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