"Information is Power"

It is our goal here to empower you with the information you need to make informed decisions about DCE. Millions of users worldwide confidently rely on DCE to help them make the most of their computing investments.

In this section of the DCE web site we provide two classes of information.

• DCE information from The Open Group
• Links to DCE information from DCE product vendors and other external resources

How to Order DCE from The Open Group

Free DCE Software - including documentation, from The Open Group and numerous third-party contributors

DCE Documentation - pointers to technically-oriented DCE documentation maintained by us as well as other sites

• Open Group DCE Documentation & Specifications
• DCE Today - the latest book on DCE, including recent developments and future directions
• Open Group RFCs
• A Brief note on DCE and Y2K
• Introduction to OSF DCE - the place to start for general overview
• White Papers, Data Sheets, & other Overviews - most are somewhat old but still useful as introductory reading
  
• DCE FAQ from Jon Mauney, Linux DCE FAQ
• IETF Internet Draft on UUIDs and GUIDs
• The Usenet newsgroup: comp.soft-sys.dce - on your nearby news server

Third Party DCE Information and Articles

• dcerpc.net contains lots of information on DCE RPC
• DCE and Objects, by Dave Chappell, Chappell and Associates. First published 3/96.
• The Open Group in PC Week - a special supplement on Security Solutions for Distributed Computing and the Internet
• Information Week article on internet security entitled "Vendors and businesses work to make the Internet safer for commerce"

OSF Character and Codeset Registry - The latest version of the OSF Character and Codeset Registry is 1.2g and was released June 14, 1999. The registry is available from ftp.opengroup.org/pub/code_set_registry. The description of the codeset registry is contained in RFC40.