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OSF Electronic Bulletin - October Issue
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Search for these topics inside this issue:
* Executive Summary
- Key Highlights from this Month's Bulletin
* OSF in the Press
- DCE RPC and IDL Compiler Source to be Accessible
Via the Internet
* OSF End User Forum News
* Technology News Nuggets
- Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)
- DCE at SuperSIG Week
- OSF to Accelerate Adoption of Interoperable
Technology
- Next DCE Product Catalog Revision
- OSF/Motif Graphical User Interface
- OSF/Motif 2.0 Licensees Surpass 100 in Less Than
60 Days
- Motif Release 2.0 Certification Program
- OSF User Environment Component (UEC) SIG Meeting
Announcement
- Motif Calendar of Events
* OSF Pre-Structured Technology (PST) News Nuggets
- DCE 1.2 PST Update
- Common Desktop Environment/Motif PST Member Review
at SuperSIG Week
* OSF Research Institute (RI) Advanced Development
- World-Wide Web (WWW) Conference Update, October 17-
20, Chicago
- Research Institute Releases High Performance
Microkernel and Server
- The OSF Research Institute's Internet Program
- Integrating DCE services and Mosaic
* OSF Meetings and Events
- OSF 1995 Member Meeting
- SuperSIG Week '94
* SIG News Nuggets: News from OSF's Special Interest
Groups
- SuperSIG Week Agenda (October 31-November 3, 1994)
- DCE/MAN SIG
- UEC SIG
* Customer Services
* OSF Calendar of 1994 Major Events
* 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 5, Issue 9. October, 1994
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Executive Summary
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* OSF, HP and Digital announced that 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.
* There will be an End User Forum meeting during
SuperSIG Week on Wednesday, November 2. The Forum
begins with a working lunch open to any SuperSIG
participants with common interests. A topic suggested
for the lunch is "OSF Technology Requirements
Coordinated by SIG chairs and the End User Forum."
After lunch, an End User Forum session open to all End
User participation and vendor observation runs until
approximately 5:00 pm.
* Since OSF/Motif 2.0 began shipping in early August,
1994, OSF has shipped source code to over 100 licensees!
* The Common Desktop Environment (CDE)/Motif authoring
group will present draft contents of the CDE/Motif PST
at the UEC SIG meeting that will be held during SuperSIG
Week. Please refer to the Motif Technology News Nuggets
section for agenda details.
* There will be a detailed review of the OSF-Request
for Comment (RFC) 63 ("DCE 1.2 Contents Overview") led
by Joe Pato from Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday, November 1
during SuperSIG Week. Please refer to the DCE/DME SIG
News section for agenda details.
* The second international WWW Conference, held in
Chicago, October 17-20, was completely sold out eight
weeks after the show announcement. More than 1300
attendees registered for the conference. To
accommodate those individuals unable to attend, a server
containing all of the 200 papers presented at the
conference will be made available via the WEB,
following the event. Watch the Web and look for
announcements on the next WWW Conference and
availability of conference papers.
* The OSF's RI Microkernel (MK) Release 6.1 is now
available in snapshot form to OSF/1 1.3 licensees.
This release consists of the RI Mach microkernel and an
OSF/1 server for the Intel x86 platform. The MK 6.1
also includes a variety of real-time features such as a
new synchronizer interface in Mach, a real-time threads
library, and a new RPC interface. In addition the Mach
kernel is now preemptible.
* To help users connect and move around the Internet,
and feel more secure about World-Wide Web transactions,
Open Software Foundation Research Institute (OSF RI) in
collaboration with commercial and government sponsors,
has undertaken three programs. The first program
explores distributed clients for ease-of-use and
increased productivity on the Internet. The second
examines intelligent agent assistance for Internet
browsing. The last looks at integration of DCE
(particularly the robust security features) with the
Mosaic application and the World-Wide Web servers.
Please refer to the OSF Research Institute Advanced
Development section for more details.
* The OSF 1995 Member Meeting has been scheduled for
Wednesday, May 31 through Friday, June 2 at the Westin
Hotel, Copley Place in Boston.
* OSF is planning to hold their annual SuperSIG Week
Meeting in Boston on October 31 - November 3. Refer to
the OSF Meetings and Events section for agenda details.
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OSF in the Press
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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 Tokyo, 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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End User Forum Activity
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The next End User Forum event will occur during SuperSIG
week on Wednesday, November 2. The Forum begins with a
working lunch open to any SuperSIG participants with
common interests. A topic suggested for the lunch is
"OSF Technology Requirements Coordinated by SIG chairs
and the End User Forum." To eliminate scheduling
conflicts, there are no SuperSIG events running in
parallel during this extended lunch session.
After lunch, an End User Forum session, open to End User
participation and vendor observation, runs until
approximately 5:00 pm. Suggested topics include; status
of end user participation on existing Project Steering
Committees and the Architecture Planning Council, event
planning for 1995, coordination with other end user
groups (notably X/Open), a discussion around maximizing
the benefits of OSF membership through increased
participation by end users and enhanced services from
OSF.
We will distribute the agenda for the lunch and End User
Forum within the next couple of weeks. Any suggestions
should be sent to Ted Hanss, Chair, End User Forum
Steering Committee at ted@umich.edu (phone: +1-313-763-
6185, FAX: +1-313-763-4434).
Reminder: Please register your email address with Jane
Smeloff (jane@osf.org) in order to get mailings to the
end user membership. We want to get that mailing list to
a critical mass so we can begin to use it more
effectively.
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Technology News Nuggets
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Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Technology
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DCE at SuperSIG Week
End user, system vendor, and ISV members will have yet
another chance to hear the latest developments on DCE
and to help shape the future of the technology at
SuperSIG October 30 - November 2. SuperSIG will be an
open forum for exchange on the topics most important to
the membership and the industry at large. There will be
a detailed review of the OSF-Request for Comment (RFC)
63 ("DCE 1.2 Contents Overview") led by Joe Pato from
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday, November 1.
In addition to the combined DCE/DME general session,
there will be numerous workgroups on topics such as:
business, management, quality, Object Oriented,
Database, I18N, l10N and deployment. Come take
advantage of this opportunity to get involved.
OSF to Accelerate Adoption of Interoperable Technology
This month OSF, along with Digital Equipment Corporation
and Hewlett-Packard, announced that they will be making
the DCE RPC and the IDL compiler freely available via
the Internet. This move will help DCE gain even more
momentum through the resulting increase in application
developer activity.
Developers will be able to accelerate their deployment
efforts by working directly with DCE RPC and IDL. This
will widen the breadth of DCE research and development
across the entire industry, leading towards the goal of
ubiquitous DCE deployment. This announcement is being
made just months after OSF reduced DCE pricing to a
point that encourages system vendors to include DCE on
all their shipments.
Next DCE Product Catalog Revision
Vendors and solution providers are continually releasing
new DCE products and services, and OSF will capture the
latest of these in the next revision of the DCE Product
Catalog. It will be released November 18th, 1994.
Current copies of the catalog may be obtained by
contacting OSF Direct Channels at: 617-621-7300 -
direct@osf.org.
If you know of a listing that should be added or updated
in the catalog, please send the information to Courtney
Grey grey@osf.org by November 11. Please put DCE
PRODUCT CATALOG in the subject to expedite processing.
As always, OSF is more than happy to address any
questions regarding platforms and vendors that are not
currently in the catalog.
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OSF/Motif Highlights - User Environment Technology
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OSF/MOTIF 2.0 Licenses Surpass 100 in Less Than 60 Days
Since OSF/Motif 2.0 began shipping in August 1994, OSF
has shipped source code to more than 100 licensees! If
you have not obtained your copy, you can do so by
contacting OSF Direct at 617-621-7300 or send email to
direct@osf.org or crow@osf.org.
OSF/Motif 2.0 is a major functional release 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.
Features include:
- New extensibility features that make building widgets
easier than ever
- C++ support
- Seven new widgets including: container, notebook and
combobox
- UIL support of 64-bit architectures and platform
independent UID files
- MWM support for virtual screen and workspace
management protocols
- Revised Style Guide: converges windows, CUA, CDE,
OSF/Motif styles
- OSF now offers new CD-ROM distribution for OSF/Motif
R 2.0.
Also available from OSF is a new release of the
OSF/Motif Validation Test Suite (VTS) that validates
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 avaluable aid to your quality assurance process.
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 shipping applications
with Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs). Complete
technical and licensing information can be obtained by
contacting OSF Direct Channels at direct@osf.org or 617-
621-7300, or contact Darrell Crow at crow@osf.org.
Motif Release 2.0 Certification Program
If you would like to receive a copy of the requirements
for OSF/Motif 2.0 implementation or style certification,
please send your requests to burrage@osf.org. Be sure
to include your surface address. This information
cannot be sent electronically.
The following documents will be available upon request:
- OSF Request For Motif Certification Kit.
(includes Motif Requirements)
- OSF Request for Motif Style Certification Kit.
- OSF Request for Waiver Kit.
OSF UEC SIG Meeting Announcement
Date: Nov. 1-2, 1994
Location: Boston Marriott Hotel Newton
Host: Open Software Foundation
TOPIC: UEC SIG events during SuperSIG week
Please plan to attend a User Environment Component
Special Interest Group meeting Nov. 1-2, at the Boston
Marriott Hotel Newton, 2345 Commonwealth Avenue at Route
128/95 and the Massachusetts Turnpike in Newton, MA
(617-969-1000). Meetings will begin each day at 8:30 am.
The first day of this meeting will consist of the UEC
SIG members attending a CDE PST presentation that will
be presented by the CDE PST authoring group. As part of
the PST development and approval process, draft PST
contents are presented to the OSF membership for review
and comment prior to the PST being presented for
approval to the OSF Board of Directors. This is your
opportunity to provide your company's input on
requirements for the next release of OSF/Motif and CDE.
The second day of the meeting will be used as breakout
group sessions to discuss the information from the
previous day. This is your opportunity to gather
information and participate in the open process. We
look forward to seeing you there. If you have any
questions, please feel free to contact elee@ics.com, the
UEC SIG Chair or
Darrell Crow at crow@osf.org.
AGENDA
TUESDAY, Nov. 1
8:30 Coffee
9:00 CDE PST Presentation by the PST
Authoring Group.
5:00 Working Group Planning for following day
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Working Groups Meet
Noon Lunch
1:00 Working Group Reports and other business
2:00 Adjourn
Motif Calendar of Events
EXug Oct. 27-28
Edinberg, Scotland
OSF SuperSig Week Oct. 31 - Nov. 3
Boston, MA
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OSF Pre-Structured Technology (PST)
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DCE 1.2 PST Update
There will be a detailed review of the OSF-Request for
Comment (RFC) 63 ("DCE 1.2 Contents Overview") led by
Joe Pato from Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday, November 1
during SuperSIG Week. Please refer to the DCE/DME SIG
News section for agenda details.
Common Desktop Environment/Motif PST Member Review at
SuperSIG Week
As you may be aware, a group of companies are working
together within the OSF PST development process to
coordinate the evolution of the OSF/Motif and the Common
Desktop Environment.
As part of the PST development and approval process,
draft PST contents are presented to the OSF membership
for review and comment prior to the PST being presented
for approval to the OSF Board of Directors. This review
is a benefit of OSF membership.
With this letter we are inviting the OSF membership to
participate in a member review of the Common Desktop
Environment/Motif PST contents, helping OSF to develop a
recommendation to the OSF board. Those who register to
participate in the member review process will receive a
confidential package of presentation materials prior to
the draft PST review meeting which will take place on
November 1st at the OSF SuperSIG week.
To register for the OSF member review on November 1st at
the CDE/Motif PST Interest Group session during
SuperSIG, please see SIG news section for registration
details.
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WWW Conference Update, October 17-20, Chicago
Why are 1,300 of world's leading Webmeister's heading to
a down-town hotel in Chicago next week? They are among
the lucky attendees of the sold out Second International
World-Wide Web Conference Fall '94 focusing on Mosaic
and the Web. Why are they lucky? More than 300
individuals were turned away when space for the
conference filled just eight weeks after the conference
was announced via the Web in July.
The conference organizers knew that interest in the Web
and Mosaic was exploding, and tripled the conferences
size from the first conference, held last May in Cern,
Switzerland. To accommodate those individuals unable to
attend, a server containing approximately 200 papers
presented at the conference will be made available via
the WEB, following the event. Watch the Web following
the conference for the posting of conference papers and
for announcements on the next WWW Conference. As was
the case for this years' event, the announcement for the
next conference will be made via the WEB.
Announcements of the next WWW Conference will be posted
to:
URL: http://riwww.osf.org:8001/index.html
and
URL: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/IT94Info.html
With a speaker and attendee list that reads like a who's
who in Mosaic and the World-Wide Web, the conference
program covers the growing impact of the World-Wide Web;
how to use Mosaic; advanced features of Mosaic;
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML); WWW and Internet
software and service; information security on the Web;
server management; the future of WWW communication for
education, social sciences, government, medical,
financial and other commercial uses.
For a look at the full conference agenda, the Web access
URL is:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Agenda/Agenda-all.html
In addition, a new on-line publication called WEBster
will publish daily from the conference. OSF members and
their colleagues can receive FREE updates from the show
by subscribing to the email in WEBster's message below:
Live! From Chicago...It's WEBster
WEBster SPOTlight
Oct. 11, 1994
While the rest of the world sleeps, TEAM WEBster will be
holed up at the Ramada Inn in downtown Chicago tapping
away at their laptop keyboards so you, gentle reader,
can keep abreast of all the Second World-Wide Web
Conference news as it happens.
Just think of the potential. You can dazzle your boss,
baffle your friends and colleagues and intellectually
woo members of the opposite sex. All without ever having
to pack your suitcase, fight the crowds or eat airline
food.
Even if you are attending the conference, you can't be
everywhere at once. Count on WEBster to fill you in on
what you've missed.
New products, hot topics, tantalizing speeches and more
will be sent directly to your e-mail box every morning
Oct. 17 to 21. Daily schedules, conference overviews,
interviews with participating luminaries ... you'll get
it all, and better yet, you'll get it for free!!
To receive your copies of Live! From Chicago, send an e-
mail message to
<live@webster.tgc.com>.
(Reprinted by permission from Tabor Griffin
Communications.)
To receive free trial of WEBster every other Tuesday at
no charge, send e-mail (no text needed) to
"4free@webster.tgc.com".
Research Institute Releases High Performance Microkernel
and Server
Recent OSF RI operating system results in performance
and real-time have been combined in a single release, MK
6.1, which is now available in snapshot form to OSF/1
1.3 licensees. MK 6.1 consists of the RI Mach
microkernel and an OSF/1 server for the Intel x86
platform.
Utilizing a variety of performance techniques, such as
collocation and device driver asynchronous I/O (which
permits task notification directly from interrupt
context), this system offers performance that is within
5% (or better) of the integrated Unix kernels available
for the x86 PC. A low level Mach performance test suite
is included with the release.
MK 6.1 includes a variety of real-time features such as
a new synchronizer interface in Mach, a real-time
threads library, and a new RPC interface. In addition
the Mach kernel is now preemptible.
For more information about the OSF Research Institute's
MK6 project goal to demonstrate that microkernel based
systems can achieve performance levels close to or
equivalent to integrated operating systems, or for MK
6.1 snapshot information, please contact Marci Kelley at
617-621-7341 or marci@osf.org.
The OSF Research Institute's Internet Program
As organizations re-engineer for the 90's, a growing
number are closely examining use of the Internet and in
particular, the World-Wide Web (WWW) servers as a low
cost vehicle for fostering communications, and
distributing and collecting information. According to
some sources, Internet bandwidth consumed by WWW
applications has been growing at twice the rate of total
Internet bandwidth consumption. From June 1993
to March 1994, the number of World-Wide Web servers
increased from approximately 130 to over 1,260
(Internet World, Sept. 94). This emerging worldwide
information infrastructure will offer significant
productivity advantages to knowledge workers of the mid
to late 90's provided that the technology is easy to use
and includes security for sensitive information.
To help users connect and move around the Internet, and
feel more secure about World-Wide Web transactions,
Open Software Foundation Research Institute (OSF RI) in
collaboration with commercial and government sponsors,
has undertaken three programs. The first program
explores distributed clients for ease-of-use and
increased productivity on the Internet. The second
examines intelligent agent assistance for Internet
browsing. The last looks at integration of DCE
(particularly the robust security features) with the
Mosaic application and the World-Wide Web servers. How
each of the three RI programs propose to satisfy basic
user requirements are described below.
Integrating DCE services and Mosaic
Today, Mosaic clients and the cross-linked network of
World-Wide Web (WWW) servers offer users only minimal
security. Better security, combined with ease of use,
points to a very exciting future for users of the Web.
Enhanced security will make it possible for publishers
to accept credit card orders and verify a customer's
signature, and credit card information over the Web.
It could also open the door for customers to access
information about their personal bank account, not
just about the bank's services.
OSF RI is taking on the challenge of re-engineering the
Mosaic browser application and the current Hypertext
Transport Protocol (HTTP) used by the WWW to provide
full DCE security, including authentication,
authorization and data protection. The intent is to
modify exiting protocols and software minimally, while
taking advantage of the rich functionality provided by
the OSF Distributed Computing Environment (OSF DCE)
technology.
Delivery of a research prototype DCE WWW server and a
research prototype DCE Mosaic client is planned during
the second quarter of 1995.
For complete information on developments, usage, and
attitudes towards these technology explorations as
research programs progress, access the OSF RI Programs
information page on the WWW. The URL access code is:
http://riwww.osf.org:8001/ri/ri-info.html
OSF members who wish to tell us about their current
Internet and WWW projects, and to include their project
team in our data base, can forward information and
complete names and addresses to:
internet-program-request@osf.org
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OSF Meetings and Events
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OSF 1995 Member Meeting
Reserve space on your calendar to attend the 1995 OSF
Member Meeting. The meeting will be held:
Wednesday, May 31 through Friday, June 2
The Westin Hotel
Copley Place
Boston, MA 02116
Special OSF group room rate: $149.00 single or double.
These rates will be extended for three days before and
three days after May 31 and June 2. This meeting is the
week after Memorial Day. Take advantage of the special
rates (normal rates are $200) and bring the family to
Boston for one of the weekends!
To reserve hotel rooms call the Westin at 800-228-3000
or 617-262-9600.
SuperSIG Week '94
OSF is planning to hold their annual SuperSIG Week
Meeting in Boston on October 31 - November 3. Refer to
the SIG News section for the preliminary agenda.
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OSF SIG News
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SuperSIG Week '94
Monday, October 31 - Thursday, November 3, 1994
HOTEL INFORMATION:
Boston Marriott Hotel Newton
2345 Commonwealth Avenue
at Route 128/95 and
the Massachusetts Turnpike
Newton, MA 02166
617-969-1000
Sleeping room rate: $112/night.
Reservation cut off date: October 9, 1994.
Complimentary parking at hotel.
MEETING DATES:
(All meetings will be at the Boston Marriott Newton)
Monday, October 31
8:30 AM - 12:00 NN DCE/DME SIG
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM DCE/DME Working Groups
(SVR4, Quality, DFS and DCE
Naming)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Management BOF
Tuesday, November 1
8:30 AM - 12:00 NN DCE/DME Working Group
(Deployment, OSF-RFC 63)
CDE/Motif PST Interest Meeting
(Member review of draft PST
contents)
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM DCE/DME Working Groups
(Business, Object Oriented,
Performance)
CDE/Motif PST Interest Meeting
(Member review of draft PST
contents)
4:00 PM - 7:30 PM OSF General Session & Reception
Wednesday, November 2
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM UEC/Motif Working Groups
Standards Coordinating Committee
Security SIG
Documentation SIG
Internationalization SIG,
(will also include the DCE/DME
I18N and L10N Working Groups)
12:00 NN - 1:30 PM End User Forum - Working lunch
(open to all)
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM End User Forum-meeting continues
Thursday, November 3
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Security SIG (will also include
the DCE/DME Security Working
Groups)
Documentation SIG (will also
include the DCE/DME
Documentation Working Group)
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED -- Deadline: October 21.
To register electronically send email to
<supersig@osf.org>. If email is not available, call
Kathy Moriconi at 617-621-8838 or send a fax to 617-621-
0631 to request a registration form.
Please direct agenda specific questions to the
appropriate SIG chairperson(s):
CDE/Motif PST Meeting - Cathy Betz, betz@osf.org
DCE/DME Peter Oleinick, pno@transarc.com
DOC Lee Fogal, fogal@zk3.dec.com
End User Forum Ted Hanss, ted@citi.umich.edu
I18N Jon Bale,
jon_bale@hpg200.desk.hp.com,
or Terry Rowan,
terry@nlsarch.austin.ibm.com,
or Seita Iida,
iida@ymt101.yamato.ibm.com.jp
SCC Henry Lowe, lowe@osf.org
Security Charles Blauner,
chazx.ctt.bellcore.com,
or Jim Schindler, js@cup.hp.com
UEC (Motif) Ed Lee, elee@ics.com
DCE/MAN SIG
The next DCE/MAN SIG meeting will be held on:
October 31 (Monday) from 9AM to 5PM
November 1 (Tuesday) from 9AM to 5PM
at
The Boston Marriott Hotel Newton
2345 Commonwealth Avenue
at Route 128/95 and
the Massachusetts Turnpike
Newton, MA 02166
617-969-1000
The meeting will take place during SuperSIG Week. The
DCE/MAN activities occur during the first two days of
the four day meeting. Included in the agenda below, are
the other SIG meetings and Forums that
will be occurring. Don't forget to register by sending
email to <supersig@osf.org>.
A couple of special announcements:
** The Business Working Group which traditionally meets
in the afternoon of the first day is meeting the
afternoon of the second day instead.
** There will be a detailed review of OSF-RFC 63 ("DCE
1.2 Contents Overview") led by Joe Pato on Tuesday
morning.
** The Documentation Working Group will meet with the
Documentation SIG November 2-3.
** The Internationalization Working Group will meet on
November 2 with the Internationalization SIG.
** The Security Working Group will meet on Thursday
November 3.
Agenda:
Monday October 31
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8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:20 DCE Business Update - Joe Maloney
9:20 - 9:40 DCE 1.1 Project Update - Maryanne
Paratore Talpey
9:40 - 10:15 DCE OMG Technical Update - {OSF person
to present}
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 DCE Technical 1.2 PST Update -
Scott Wang
11:00 - 11:30 Panel Session: Increasing the Openness
of the PST process - Bill Estrem, Scott
Wang, Peter Shaw, and a player to be
named later.
11:30 - 12:30 Microsoft (NT, Cairo, OLE, etc.) and the
DCE - Paul Leach
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 5:00 Working Group Meetings - Session #1
- SVR4
- Quality
- DFS
- Naming
5:00 - 6:00 Management BOF
Tuesday November 1
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8:30 - 12:00 Working Group Meetings - Session #2
- Deployment
- OSF-RFC 63 Review led by
Joe Pato
CDE/Motif PST Interest Meeting
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 3:30 Working Group Meetings - Session #3
- Business
- Object Oriented
- Performance
1:00 - 3:30 CDE/Motif PST Interest Meeting
4:00 - 7:00 OSF General Session & Reception
Wednesday November 2
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8:30 - 5:00 UEC/Motif Working Groups
8:30 - 5:00 Standards Coordinating Committee
8:30 - 5:00 Security SIG
8:30 - 5:00 Documentation SIG
8:30 - 5:00 I18N SIG (will also include the DCE/DME
I18N and L10N Working Groups)
12:00 - 1:30 End User Forum - working lunch (open to
all)
1:30 - 4:30 End User Forum continues
Thursday November 3
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8:30 - 5:00 Security SIG (will also include the
DCE/DME Security Working Groups)
8:30 - 5:00 Documentation SIG
Peter Oleinick, SIG Chair
Transarc Corp.
(412) 338-4368
pno@transarc.com
UEC SIG
Date: Nov. 1-2, 1994
Location: Boston Marriott Hotel Newton
Host: Open Software Foundation
TOPIC: UEC SIG events during SuperSIG week
Please plan to attend a User Environment Component
Special Interest Group meeting Nov. 1-2 at the Boston
Marriott Hotel Newton, 2345 Commonwealth Avenue at Route
128/95 and the Massachusetts Turnpike in Newton, MA
(617-969-1000) Meetings will begin each day at 8:30 am.
Reply via e-mail, fax, or phone to acknowledge your
attendance.
The first day of this meeting will consist of the UEC
SIG members attending a CDE PST presentation that will
be presented by the CDE PST authoring group. As part of
the PST development and approval process, draft PST
contents are presented to the OSF membership for review
and comment prior to the PST being presented for
approval to the OSF Board of Directors. This is your
opportunity to provide your company's input on
requirements for the next release of OSF/Motif and CDE.
The second day of the meeting will be used to discuss
the previous days information in breakout groups. This
is your opportunity to gather information and
participate in the open process. We look forward to
seeing you there. If you have any questions, please
feel free to contact elee@ics.com, the UEC SIG Chair or
Darrell Crow at crow@osf.org.
AGENDA
TUESDAY, Nov. 1
8:30 Coffee
9:00 CDE PST Presentation by the PST
Authoring Group.
5:00 Working Group Planning for following day
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Working Groups Meet
Noon Lunch
1:00 Working Group Reports and other business
2:00 Adjourn
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Services, Documentation, and Engineering Services - is
featured in a separate electronic delivery: The Customer
Service NewsLetter. This newsletter will be sent to you
on Friday, October 21. If you have any Customer Service
questions in the meantime, please feel free to contact
Natalie Tarbet. Phone 617-621-8762 or email
tarbet@osf.org.
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OSF Calendar of 1994 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.
1994
October
October 17-20 2nd International WWW Conference '94:
Mosaic and the Web
Ramada-Congress Hotel
Chicago, IL
October 18-20 Enterprise IS
London, UK
October 19-21 PC Expo
Chicago, IL
October 21-24 Object World
Tokyo, Japan
October 24-28 Networld+Interop
Paris, France
October 27-28 EXug
Edinberg, Scotland
October 31-3 SuperSIG Week
Boston, MA
November
November 14-18 Comdex
Las Vegas, NV
November 28-3 Fed UNIX
Washington, DC
December
December 10-15 DECUS
Anaheim, CA
February
February 7-9 DECORUM '95
La Jolla, CA
February 13-16 TINA: Telecom & Distrib.
Melbourne, Australia
February 14-16 Network Expo
Boston, MA
February 16-17 Internet Society
San Diego, CA
February 20-24 International Conference on Open
Distributed Process (ICODP):
Brisbane, Australia
March
March 6-7 Research Issues in Data Engineering
(RIDE) Dist. Obj. Mgmt.
Taipei, Taiwan
March 14-16 UNIFORUM '95
Dallas, TX
April
April 2-5 ISSA: Dist. Comp./Sec.
Toronto, Ontario
April 24-29 SANS-IV
Washington, D.C.
May
May 1-5 IFIP/IEEE
Santa Barbara, CA
May 2-5 HPCN Europe
Milan, Italy
May 31-2 OSF Member Meeting
Boston, MA
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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:
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East Bob Goldschneider:(617)621-8778 or bobg@osf.org
Brussels
Alain Fastre:011-32-2-772-88 88 or fastre@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
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