This is about a month old, but I thought people might be
interested, particularly in the status of HP's DFS.
Thanks, Dawn
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&D Atrium To Release IBM RS/6000 Version Of Dazel App Development
Environment: New Version, Other DCE Products, Expected To Bow At Unix
Expo
Atrium Technologies: Releases added platform for its DCE-based Dazel
apps development environments
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Open Systems Today September 20, 1993 p10
THIS IS THE FULL TEXT: Copyright 1993 CMP Publications, Inc.
By Laurel Nelson-Rowe
Atrium Technologies this week is expected to add another
platform for its DCE-based Dazel application development and
distribution environment, and to unveil additions to its DCE-based
product family.
The Austin, Texas, start-up will announce an IBM RS/6000-based
version of Dazel - which has been shipping since June on SPARC -
during Unix Expo in New York. The software, which requires AIX
3.2 or later and DCE 1.0.2, is shipping and costs $19,400 for a
20-user configuration under Atrium's configuration-based pricing
model.
Dazel is based on both the Open Software Foundation's
Distributed Computing Environment services and the Palladium de
factor distributed printing system standard. The software can be
used as a base for DCE-type information distribution to printers,
faxes, messaging systems and pagers. The package includes a GUI,
systems management capabilities, access and control functions and
APIs to integrate custom applications.
Bob Fabbio, Atrium founder and president, and founder and
former president of Tivoli Systems, compared Dazel to the distributed
application and services model Microsoft is pursuing with its
Windows-based Microsoft at Work developments, where APIs and common
services integrate office functions from tax to copier to printers
and pagers under business applications.
Key differences are that Atrium's product plan is based on
Unix, the established DCE standard, and 'we are deploying it now,'
Fabbio said. He said several are implementing Dazel on SPARC,
including Mead Data Central, Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwabb and
Amoco, among others.
Atrium also will roll out the Distributed Access Control
Manager Graphical System Administration Tool (DACM), a GUI-based
program for systems administrators to control user privileges and
simplify management tasks across Unix-based DCE environments. The
product includes a centralized privilege database and mechanisms to
define objects and validate their operations.
Available for both SPARC systems running SunOS 4.1.2 or later
and Transarc DCE v1.0.2 and RS/6000s running AIX 3.2.3 and DCE
v1.0.2, DACM costs $3,000 for a 20-user configuration. Also
available is a separate $3,500 systems management tool and a $4,500
software development kit.
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&D HP Ships DCE Distributed File System Beta Software
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Open Systems Today September 20, 1993 p99
THIS IS THE FULL TEXT: Copyright 1993 CMP Publications, Inc.
By Paul Kapustka
Hewlett-Packard said last week that it is now delivering
beta-version software of its implementation of the Distributed
Computing Environment's Distributed File System and pledged to ship
actual products for its Unix systems in the first quarter of 1994.
Though HP, like IBM and Digital Equipment Corp., has been
shipping a core services package of Distributed Computing Environment
(DCE) software since early this year, only IBM is offering any
products with Distributed File System (DFS) technology. DFs, the
base file system of the Open Software Foundation's DCE offering, is a
key component for users who wants to be able to swap files among
different vendors' DCE-based machines.
HP said it will demonstrate its DFS software interoperating
with similar implementations from IBM and Transarc at this week's
Unix Expo show in New York. HP said it will ship actual DFS
products in early 1994, but it did not give a specific delivery date
or prices.
Transarc, the company that contributed the base technology for
DFS, is building DFS software for SPARC workstations. Sun
Microsystems said in August that it plans to ship a
Transarc-developed DFS package before the end of the year. DEC made
a similar pledge in May to ship DFS products for its OSF/1 operating
system by the end of 1993.
In general, DFS implementations have trailed core-service
offerings from all DCE vendors. Dave Martinez, HP's DCE products
manager, said the reason for the delay is that DFS is an application
that runs on top the core services. Therefore, before DFS could be
fully developed, the core service packages had to be 'bulletproof,'
he said.
'It took a little longer to develop DFS products than we would
have liked,' Martinez said. 'But we didn't want to go back to the
bad old days of Unix, where file trees would disappear for no reason.
We just didn't want to put DFS out there as a technology. We wanted
to make sure it was something people could use with confidence.'
According to Martinez, user interest in DCE products is
building, perhaps, in part, because products are finally arriving.
Though past claims by the OSF that DCE use would be 'rampant' by the
end of this year were clearly overenthusiastic, Martinez said the
number of third-party vendors and ISVs asking HP for DCE products is
growing steadily.
'I think a lot of vendors and users were waiting on DCE until
there was something concrete out there, some products that they could
start playing with,' Martinez said. 'But we're getting a lot of
interest now from ISVs and from development tool vendors.
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&D SCO Ships U.S. Version Of DCE Developer Kit: Run-Time Version To Be
Available Next Year
Santa Cruz Operation: Unveils SCODCE Developers Kit 1.0 for
distributed Computing applications
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Open Systems Today September 27, 1993 p40
THIS IS THE FULL TEXT: Copyright 1993 CMP Publications, Inc.
By Howard Baldwin
The Santa Cruz Operation is now shipping the U.S. version of
its SCO DCE Developer's Kit 1.0, for building applications based on
the Open Software Foundation's distributed computing environment
standard, company officials said.
An international version will ship next month, while the
run-time version - required to deploy these applications across a
Unix network - will be available in the first half of 1994.
Dipak Basu, product line manager of enabling systems at SCO,
said that developers can use the DCE Developer's Kit either to give
distributed capabilities to an existing SCO application or to port an
application from another platform to SCO Unix.
The SCO DCE Developer's Kit 1.0 is available on tape for $3,995
and on diskettes for $4,195. Based on the latest version of the
OSF's DCE, release 1.0.2, the development kit includes the DCE
executive and servers as well as the DCE application development
environment, which includes the interference definition language
(IDL) compiler, header files, and run-time libraries.
Contact SCO of Santa Cruz, Calif., at 408-425-7222.
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