Overview[1]#
Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is a software system developed in the early 1990s from the work of the Open Software Foundation (OSF), a consortium (founded in 1988) that included Apollo Computer (part of Hewlett-Packard from 1989), IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, and others.Distributed Computing Environment supplies a framework and a toolkit for developing client/server applications. The framework includes:
- a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) mechanism known as DCE-RPC
- a naming Service (Directory Service)
- a time service
- an authentication service
- a Distributed File System (DFS) known as DCE-DFS
Distributed Computing Environment has not seen much success in practical implementation; however, its underlying concepts have had more substantial influence over subsequent efforts.
More Information#
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:- [#1] - Distributed_Computing_Environment
- based on information obtained 2017-03-12-