(DCE) An architecture based on standard programming interfaces, conventions & server functionalities used for distributing applications transparently across networks. The DCE is controlled & promoted by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) a consortium of vendors including DEC, IBM and Hewlett Packard.
An OSF initiative to create a vendor-neutral networking and distributed computing environment to support distributed applications, by integrating the appropriate technology or combination of technologies into a single environment.
The Open Software Foundations specification for a set of integrated services, including remote procedure calls, distributed file systems, and security services. The OSF-DCE RPC standard is the basis for Microsoft RPC.
a complex middleware platform providing security services.
An OSF product. A windowing environment similar to Motif.
1. The Open Software Foundation's architecture for distributed computing. It is also a set of network services (for example, security service, threads, directory, and time services) that are implemented in source code and licensed by software manufacturers for incorporation into products. 2. (IRM) A suite of technology services that may be used by many applications that run on different platforms. Examples of technology services are security services and directory services. DCE is maintained by The Open Group.
An industry standard software technology for setting up and managing computing and data exchange in a system of distributed computers typically used in a large client/server network of computing systems that include servers of different sizes, scattered geographically.
(DCE): a set of standards by the Open Group for the implementation of distributed technologies. Its equivalents are the Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model and OMG's Common Object Request Broker Architecture. Mentioned in: DC Communication. See also: Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model, Common Object Request Broker Architecture.
The OSF Distributed Computing Environment [30] is a comprehensive, integrated set of services that supports the development, use and maintenance of distributed applications. It provides a uniform set of services, anywhere in the network, enabling applications to utilise the power of a heterogeneous network of computers.
An architecture of standard programming interfaces, conventions, and server functionalities (e.g., naming, distributed file system, remote procedure call) for distributing applications transparently across networks of heterogeneous computers. Promoted and controlled by the Open Software Foundation (OSF), a consortium led by Digital, IBM and Hewlett Packard. [Source: RFC1208
A set of integrated network services that works across multiple systems to provide a distributed environment. The middleware between distributed applications and the operating system or networkservices; based on a client/server computing model. DCE is supported by the Open Group.
An architecture consisting of standard programming interfaces, conventions and server functionalities (eg. naming (CDS), security (Kerberos), distributed file system (DFS), remote procedure call (RPC)) for distributing applications transparently across networks of heterogeneous computers. DCE is promoted and controlled by the Open Software Foundation (OSF).
A set of middleware standards that defines the method of communication between clients and servers in a cross-platform computing environment, enabling a client program to initiate a request that can be processed by a program written in a different computer language and housed on a different computer platform.
An architecture of standard programming interfaces, conventions, and server functions (for example, naming, distributed file system, remote procedure call) for transparently distributing applications across networks of heterogeneous computers.
An architecture of standard programming interfaces, conventions,and server functionalities (e.g., naming, distributed file system,remote procedure call) for distributing applications transparentlyacross networks of heterogeneous computers. Promoted andcontrolled by the Open Software Foundation (OSF), a consortium ledby Digital, IBM and Hewlett Packard.[Source: RFC1208] distributed database
An architecture in which portions of the applications and the data are broken up and distributed among the server and client computers.
The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is a software system developed in the early 1990s by a consortium that included Apollo Computer (later part of Hewlett-Packard), IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, and others. The DCE supplies a framework and toolkit for developing client/server applications. The framework includes a remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism known as DCE/RPC, a naming (directory) service, a time service, an authentication service, an authorization service and a distributed file system (DFS) known as DCE/DFS.