DCE/DME what is it.

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Author: Ken Jones - Consultant
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:54

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Oh wise netland gurus:

What is DCE and DME? I heard that OSF had come up with some standards
for distributed computing. Are these the names for them? Does DCE/DME
include an XDR like portion?

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|   Ken Jones                                                           |
|   Expert Database Systems, Inc.                                       |
|   ken@mr_magoo.sbi.com              "Where the future begins tomorrow |
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Re: DCE/DME what is it.

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Author: Steinar Kj{rnsr|d
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:48

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In article <1429@pivot-sts.sbi.com> ken@comanche.sbi.com (Ken Jones - Consultant) writes:

> Oh wise netland gurus:
> 
> What is DCE and DME? I heard that OSF had come up with some standards
> for distributed computing. Are these the names for them? Does DCE/DME
> include an XDR like portion?
> 
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> |   Ken Jones                                                           |
> |   Expert Database Systems, Inc.                                       |
> |   ken@mr_magoo.sbi.com              "Where the future begins tomorrow |
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The answer to your two last questions is ~YES. However, you should join
the two newsgroups comp.unix.osf.misc and comp.unix.osf.osf1 if you
are interested in OSF technologies. Btw, there is an ongoing discussion
there now on the future of DCE.

I think OSF is an truly open organization. They publish a lot of 
documentation, booklets, white papers and the quarterly newsletter
"OPEN LINE". Maybe I'm wrong, but I *think* you can get most of this
free of charge, at least the newsletter and white papers.

You could try to send an email to Joel Richman (joel@osf.org), the 
editor of OPEN LINE and ask for a subscription. Good luck!

 | Steinar Kjaernsroed	Dpt. of Informatics	email:steinar@ifi.uio.no
 |			University of Oslo,               or
 |                      NORWAY                        ..!mcsun!ifi!steinar

Re: DCE/DME what is it.

#181

Author: Jonathan I. Kamens
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:57

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In article <1429@pivot-sts.sbi.com>, ken@comanche.sbi.com (Ken Jones - Consultant) writes:
|> What is DCE and DME?

DCE == "Distributed Computing Environment"
DME == "Distributed Management Environment"

DCE is the low-level support for distributed computing, including RPC support
and authentication (using Kerberos V5).

DME, which is built on top of DCE, provides management functions, such as
network management and user account management.  It's biggest component,
I think, is the Tivoli/Works object-oriented management environment.

|> I heard that OSF had come up with some standards
|> for distributed computing. Are these the names for them?

Yes.

|> Does DCE/DME
|> include an XDR like portion?

Yes.

-- 
Jonathan Kamens                                         jik@MIT.Edu
Aktis, Inc.                                    Moderator, *.answers

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