Distributed Computing Environment: Difference between revisions

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Distributed computing never really caught on as much as had been hoped for in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The rise of the [[Internet]], [[Java programming language|Java]] and [[web services]] stole much of its [[mindshare]] through the mid-to-late 1990s, and competing systems such as [[CORBA]] muddied the waters as well. Perhaps ironically, one of the major uses of DCE/RPC today are [[Microsoft]]'s [[Distributed_component_object_model|DCOM]] and [[ODBC]] systems, which use DCE/RPC (in [[MSRPC]]) as their network transport layer.

OSF and its projects eventually became part of [[The Open Group]], which released DCE 1.2.2 under a [[free software license]] (the [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]]) on [[12 January]] [[2005]]. DCE 1.1 was available much earlier under the OSF BSD license, and resulted in [http://freedce.sf.net| FreeDCE] being available since [[2000]]. FreeDCE contains an implementation of DCOM.

==Architecture==

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==External links==

* [http://www.opengroup.org/dce/ The Open Group's DCE Portal] - with link to its DCE implementation

* [http://www.opengroup.org/dce/ The Open Group's DCE Portal]

* [http://www.sei.cmu.edu/str/descriptions/dce.html DCE description at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute]

* [http://freedce.sf.net FreeDCE]

[[Category:Network-related software]]