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OSF Electronic Flash - DCE RPC Press Release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (OSF Corporate Communications)
Tue Oct 4 13:39:29 1994
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Date: October 4, 1994
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Open Software Foundation
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OSF ELECTRONIC FLASH
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An electronic mail news flash for OSF Members from
the Open Software Foundation
October 4, 1994
EDITORIAL CONTACTS:
Jack Dwyer, OSF
(617) 621-7246
Chuck Malkiel, Digital
(508) 493-4164
Kelly Emo, HP
(408) 447-5334
OSF, HP AND DIGITAL TO ACCELERATE USE OF THE
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT THROUGH
PUBLIC DOMAIN SUBMISSION
DCE RPC and IDL Compiler Source to be Accessible
Via the Internet
NEW YORK, October 3, 1994 -- Digital Equipment
Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company and the Open
Software Foundation today announce that they will be
providing key communications and application development
components of the Open Software Foundation's Distributed
Computing Environment (DCE) into the public domain.
Both the DCE remote procedure call (RPC) and the
interface definition language (IDL) compiler will be
submitted to the internet for access by anyone
interested in using the technologies for distributed
application development. This access to key components
of DCE will be royalty-free and open, further
encouraging and accelerating the use of DCE by
developers.
"Having DCE RPC in the public domain furthers the goal
of the open systems industry by facilitating
interoperability standardization," said Peter Shaw,
Director of Business Development at OSF. "Standardizing
the interoperability mechanism is key for distributed
systems."
The DCE RPC provides the communications
infrastructure for building distributed applications
that can communicate with other DCE applications. The
IDL compiler is used to generate the client and server
application components, known as stubs, required for
applications to run in the DCE environment. Together,
these components provide application portability
and interoperability across heterogeneous platforms.
The DCE RPC and the IDL Compiler software technology
was originally submitted to OSF to be part of the DCE by
HP and Digital. Digital and HP continue to provide
support and enhancements on an on-going basis. Now,
both companies are working with the OSF to enable public
access to these technologies and subsequent enhancements
on an on-going basis.
"DCE is rapidly expanding in acceptance and purchase
in the marketplace. Virtually every large company is
specifying DCE as a key enabling technology for their
distributed computing infrastructure," said Carol G.
Mills, general manager of HP's General Systems Division.
"Our response to this exceptional customer demand is to
increase the pace of innovation and application
availability through public domain access."
"This is a very important step for the industry,"
said William R. Demmer, vice president of Digital's
Software Business Group. "We believe that a freely
available RPC will help to speed the industry adoption
and use of this important technology, and will enable
users to gain many of the important benefits of DCE. As
co-developer of the DCE RPC, Digital is pleased to
jointly provide this technology to the industry."
Both the DCE RPC and the IDL Compiler will be
accessible to the public via the internet by October
15th, 1994.
The Open Software Foundation delivers open systems
technology with the objective of enabling users 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 Toyko, OSF has more than 400 members worldwide.
Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader
in open client/server solutions from personal computing
to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's
scalable Alpha AXP platforms, storage, networking,
software and services, together with industry-focused
solutions from business partners, help organizations
compete and win in today's global marketplace.
Hewlett-Packard Company is an international
manufacturer of measurement and computation products and
systems recognized for excellence in quality and
support. The company's products and services are used
in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine
and education in approximately 110 countries. HP has
97,900 employees and had revenue of $20 billion in its
1993 fiscal year.
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