FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Jane Smeloff
The Open Group
+1 (617) 621-8997
j.smeloff@opengroup.org
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (December 9, 1996) -The Open Group, a leading organization for the advancement of open systems, today announced general availability of Release 1.2.2 of its Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). The latest release of DCE includes significant enhancements to the widely acclaimed DCE security services, as well as improvements in manageability, fault-tolerance and scalability for the DCE Distributed File System (DFS). Also provided in this release is a preview of a message-queuing service that takes advantage of DCE services.
"DCE is a key technology in three of today's most important areas of computing: security, the World Wide Web, and distributed objects," said Kathryn DeNitto, DCE Business Area Manager. "It is the only suite of integrated services from a vendor-neutral source that enables organizations to develop, use, and maintain distributed applications across heterogeneous networks. To help proliferate DCE services in the rapidly growing Internet market, The Open Group is offering commercial customers the opportunity to license the DCE 1.2.2 client-side software without paying royalties, following schema that have proved successful for many Internet providers."
The DCE 1.2.2 release focuses on enhancements to Security and DFS, and builds on the Release 1.2.1 improvements in ease of programming and administration.
DCE 1.2.2 project participants include Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Hitachi Ltd., IBM and Transarc a subsidiary of IBM.
DCE is currently shipped on all major computer platforms, including UNIX, MVS, Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, VMS, and OS/2. DCE 1.2.2 will help developers in building DCE applications, and users in administering and working with applications, resulting in accelerated deployment of DCE-based information technology environments.
For additional information, please access the DCE Web page at
http://www.opengroup.org/dce. To contact a service representative, please call our sales offices.
The widely adopted DCE technology is a comprehensive set of services that support the
development, use and maintenance of distributed applications. DCE allows heterogeneous
systems to work together cooperatively and masks the technical complexities of the
network. Because DCE is independent of the operating system and network, it is compatible
with many diverse environments currently in place by users.
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international consortium of systems and software vendors and customers from the industry,
government and academia. Under the umbrella of The Open Group, the Open Software
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streamline the development process and availability of open systems. The organization
provides a focal point for the development of international specifications and test
suites, standards based technologies, advanced open systems research, professional
services and the management of internationally recognized brands for open systems. The
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"DCE is a major technology to Global 1000 enterprises. Massive investments in
distributed infrastructure continue to be made, and this trend will only increase. It is
essential that DCE continues to evolve to reflect the priorities of the market. The DCE
1.2.2 release addresses the most critical needs of our customers in the areas of security
and scalability. We're also very pleased to see The Open Group adopting a more
internet-based pricing model."
"This release significantly enhances DCE, both from a technology and market
acceptance perspective. The security enhancements, especially in the area of public key
and smart card support, are extremely important to our customers and the price reduction
should now make it much easier for vendors and companies to deploy DCE on an enterprise
scale. DCE 1.2.2 continues the steady progress that DCE technology has made to date and
reaffirms DCE's uniqueness as the only open and comprehensive distributed computing
solution."
"Digital, a founding member of the OSF and long term member of X/Open is proud to
be a participant in the DCE V1.2.2 PST process. The V1.2.2 enhancements will make DCE
distributed services even more valuable in supporting customers' needs for open,
integrated OO, MOM, TP, and DB to provide platform connectivity.Ó
"DCE is the most complete distributed network infrastructure for enterprise
computing available today, and DCE 1.2.2 strongly enhances the acceptance and deployment
of DCE in large scale environments. The new technology in DCE 1.2.2 addresses issues such
as: ease of administration, scalability, integration with other environments, and ease of
programming. With Gradient's leadership in providing DCE to the desktop, issues of
scalability and administration are vital for our customers who deploy DCE on thousands of
desktops within their distributed computing infrastructure."
"Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) continues to be a leading supporter of DCE and we
are very pleased to see that version 1.2.2 has enhanced security technology. HP continues
to provide enhanced security around DCE through the Authorization Server as well as
DE/Service Monitor as part of our Praesidium Enterprise Security Framework."
"Digital, a founding member of the OSF and long term member of X/Open is proud to
be a participant in the DCE V1.2.2 PST process. The V1.2.2 enhancements will make DCE
distributed services even more valuable in supporting customers' needs for open,
integrated OO, MOM, TP, and DB to provide platform connectivity.Ó
"DCE security and directory services are key to IBM's middleware strategy. The
collaborative process used to develop DCE 1.2.2 provides our customers with quality
enhancements vital to extending their distributed computing infrastructures to the
Internet."
"The inclusion of public key technology, formal support of Kerberos RFC 1510, and
numerous security enhancements in the standard DCE offering further strengthen DCE's
position in becoming the best choice for an enterprise security framework. Companies large
and small searching for solutions to their security problems will be able to turn once
again to the DCE technology to achieve interoperability across the enterprise. As the
Chairman of the DCE Program Group I see this as a renewed commitment of The Open Group to
the DCE technology. As the President of an ISV that brings DCE solutions to the market I
cannot wait to take advantage of these new features in IntelliSoftÕs products."
"We are very excited about the new capabilities that DCE 1.2.2 brings to the user. It will further enhance DCEÕs adoption in mainstream IT environments and add to the momentum that DCE already has in the marketplace. santix software develops and markets worldwide the DCEmgmt product family, a suite of applications integrated with TME 10 for the management of enterprise DCE environments.
Michael Santifaller President and CEO Santix Software GmbH"Support for public key technology and Kerberos RFC 1510 in DCE 1.2.2 extends the
power of DCE for enterprise security solutions.
"Delivery of DCE 1.2.2 from The Open Group demonstrates the continued strength of
the open systems process and the commitment of the vendor community to support it. The
additional security and file system features provided in this release further enhance the
position of DCE as the premier environment for building highly secure, scalable solutions,
and of DFS as the solution for global file systems. Transarc looks forward to providing
these features to its customers in future releases of DCE, Encina and DFS."
DCE 1.2.2 Pricing Highlights: (Effective December 31, 1996)
Source Code 1.2.2 Pricing Earlier Pricing
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Full Distribution
New License $100,000 $250,000
1.1 Upgrade $50,000 $100,000
1.2.1 Upgrade $5,000
Limited Distribution
New License No fee $5,000
Object Code 1.2.2 Pricing Earlier Pricing
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Executive No Fee $2/copy or
$100K annual buy-out
Services $200/service $200/service
(Unchanged)