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OSF Electronic Flash - DCE 1.1 General Availability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (OSF Corporate Communications)
Thu Nov 3 18:28:59 1994
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Date: November 3, 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
November 3, 1994
CONTACT : Jane Smeloff
Open Software Foundation
(617) 621-8997
OSF Announces the General Availability of DCE 1.1
Major enhancements to security, administration and
internationalization
NEWTON, MA, November 1, 1994 -- The Open Software
Foundation today announced the general availability of
Release 1.1 of the Distributed Computing Environment
(DCE). This release includes,
- Major new enhancements to system administration,
including a consolidated interface for administration
throughout DCE, plus a capability allowing for the
remote start-up and shut-down of remote services;
- Enhancements to security, including a Generic
Security Service API (GSSAPI) which allows non-RPC based
systems to take advantage of DCE security, extended
registry attributes allowing various proprietary systems
to be registered in the DCE security registry, as well
as security delegation and auditing capabilities;
- Enhancements to internationalization which include
standardized POSIX and X/Open interfaces and provide
character code set interoperability and
- General performance enhancements.
"Most leading system vendors have either announced or
are currently shipping DCE on all their major computer
platforms, including Unix, MVS, Windows, HP-UX, Alpha
NT, VMS, and OS/2," said Joe Maloney, DCE Business Area
Manager. "The DCE 1.1 release provides expanded
security, administrative and internationalization
capabilities, combined with dramatically lower client
pricing and improved performance. There is simply
nothing else available in the distributed computing
marketplace that provides the interoperability of DCE."
"OSF's delivery of DCE release 1.1 is a significant step
forward for open client/server computing," said Art
Olbert, Director, LAN Systems IBM Personal Software
Products. "This release adds mission-critical
functions, such as security accounting and a wider
security envelope to DCE. DCE now meets even more
customer requirements for distributed computing whether
at the individual, workgroup or enterprise level. IBM
intends to support and exploit DCE 1.1's technology and
features as part of IBM's Open Blueprint support for
open distributed computing solutions."
"Hewlett-Packard (HP) promotes DCE because it's the best
solution for users who want to implement a secure,
interoperable and comprehensive distributed-computing
infrastructure," said Fred A. Luiz, General Manager,
HP's Open Systems Software Division. "HP contributed
the improved security and performance features in DCE
1.1 and we will incorporate all elements of DCE 1.1 into
the next release of the DCE product family." Luiz
continued by saying, "HP practices what it preaches when
it comes to DCE. We use DCE internally for new
client/server developments and significant enhancements
to existing programs."
"Transarc is very excited about the improved
administrative infrastructure and user interface, as
well as the higher level of security in the new DCE 1.1,
and considers the DCE the most critical component of any
distributed, large-scale computing environment," said
Dr. Alfred Spector, President and CEO, of the Transarc
Corporation. "Transarc Corporation has been an ardent
supporter of the DCE since we helped develop the
specifications for the DCE technology with the OSF in
1989. Based on unanimous vendor support and rapidly
growing customer deployment, it is clear the DCE has
reached the critical mass necessary to position it as
the only infrastructure you need to build successful
large-scale client/server applications," continued
Spector.
"[OSF's] DCE release 1.1 is vital to Gradient's next
generation of products," said Len Halio, President & CEO
of Gradient Technologies. "The enhanced functionality
of release 1.1, such as credentials delegation, provides
a major step forward that will permit our deployment of
high volume products, such as Gradient's NetWare
Gateway, that are critical to the widespread use of
DCE."
"As a founding member of the Open Software Foundation,
and the provider of many of the DCE components, Digital
is happy to participate in this announcement," said Don
Harbert, Vice President UNIX Business Segment at Digital
Equipment Corporation. "All of the new capabilities in
DCE release 1.1 will help establish it as a mature
foundation on which to build a multi-vendor enterprise
infrastructure. DCE release 1.1 will be an integral
part of Digital's distributed computing plans."
The widely adopted DCE technology is a comprehensive,
integrated set of services that supports the
development, use and maintenance of distributed
applications. DCE is designed to assist end users and
software developers in creating a vendor neutral
enterprise-wide computing environment -- one that
combines the hardware and software of many vendors. To
accommodate the growing demand for DCE on the desktop,
client pricing for DCE was reduced in June to encourage
widespread adoption.
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 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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