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San
Francisco, CA – January 12, 2005 – The
Open Group announced that the source code of the Distributed
Computing Environment (DCE), an industry-standard, vendor-neutral
set of distributed computing technologies, is being made
available under an Open Source license. The Open Group’s
initiative will broaden the use of DCE concepts and components
as a vendor-neutral interoperability infrastructure.
“The
Open Group’s members are committed to
working with the open source community to promote interoperability,” said
Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group. “Secure,
scalable interoperability is the foundation of exchange and
usability of data within and across organizational boundaries
- the key to Boundaryless Information Flow™.”
Previously, the DCE source was only available under a traditional
license. Making it available under a recognized open source
license (LGPL) both increases the accessibility of DCE as
an interoperability technology, and permits a broader community
to work on the source to expand its features and keep it
current.
The Open Group will work with the DCE community to make
DCE available to the open source development community, as
well as continuing to offer the source through The Open Group’s
web site at: http://www.opengroup.org/dce/
"I am pleased to hear the DCE 1.2 program sponsors
have agreed to contribute the DCE source code to the open
source community,” said William Estrem, Principal
of Metaplexity Associates and former chairman of the Open
Software Foundation End User Forum, who had served as the
customer representative on the DCE 1.2 program steering committee. “This
is a long anticipated event. I know of several developers
who are very interested in working with the code to provide
better implementations of existing DCE applications and to
create new distributed systems."
"It's great to see DCE -- the first secure secure
enterprise computing platform -- finally available for development
by the OSS community,” said Rich Salz, Chief Security
Architect at Data Power Technology. “Its size alone
makes it both a formidable challenge to, and testament in
the belief of, the open source community. I look forward
to seeing new release of DCE used to solve real-world enterprise
computing problems."
Jeremy Allison from the Samba Team, noted: “DCE is
one of the core infrastructure technologies used in computing
today. I'm delighted to see it being made available under
a Free Software licence. This will promote the wider adoption
of DCE in the Open Source/Free Software community"
The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is an industry-standard,
vendor-neutral set of distributed computing technologies.
It provides a complete Distributed Computing Environment
infrastructure, including security services to protect and
control access to data, name services that make it easy to
find distributed resources, and a scalable model for organizing
widely scattered users, services, and data. DCE runs on all
major computing platforms and is designed to support distributed
applications in heterogeneous hardware and software environments.
As a mature product with three major releases and the only
middleware system with a comprehensive security model, it
is deployed worldwide in critical business environments.
For more information, visit http://www.opengroup.org/dce/introduction.htm
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral
consortium, which drives the creation of Boundaryless Information
Flow™ that will enable access to integrated information
within and between enterprises based on open standards and
global interoperability. The Open Group works with customers,
suppliers, consortia and other standard bodies. Its role
is to capture, understand and address current and emerging
requirements, establish policies and share best practices;
to facilitate interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve
and integrate specifications and open source technologies;
to offer a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational
efficiency of consortia; and to operate the industry’s
premier certification service.
Further information on The
Open Group can be found at http://www.opengroup.org.
Note to editors: Boundaryless Information
Flow is a trademark of The Open Group.
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