Open Group Releases DCE 1.2.2 as Free Software

lkcl writes "The Open Group announced 12th January 2005 that they are releasing DCE/RPC 1.2.2 as a Free Software Project - under the LGPL. This is a major coup for Free Software: the Distributed Computing Environment is known to be involved in some major projects. There is a mirror at opendce.hands.com which runs rsync, ftp, and there is also a dce122.tar.bz2.torrent bittorrent running as well."

Re:Ummm

[stratjakt]

In precisely the same way you can call your product Kool Aid, when it helps nobody, and is in no way affiliated with Kool and the Gang.

Or in the same way that you drive on a parkway, and park in a driveway.

WTF?

[Otter]

My first thought was to say "DCE/RPC under the LGPL! Wow! Would you mind telling us what the hell the thing is?"

But, I figured I'd be socially productive, RTFA and post an explanation myself.

The OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is an industry-standard, vendor-neutral set of distributed computing technologies. DCE is deployed in critical business environments by a large number of enterprises worldwide. It is a mature product with three major releases, and is the only middleware system with a comprehensive security model.

OK, now can I say "WTF?"

Re:WTF?

[stratjakt]

It's basically a library of Open Source buzzwords, with which you can raise venture capital.

The Open Group now known as the AbandonWare Group

[GGardner]

Gosh, first Motif, now DCE? What other package that I haven't used in 10 years will be next?

Re:Is this an End of Life announcement?

[lkcl]

fucking alphabet soup. no wonder my head has turned to jelly from too much slashdotting.

BREAKING NEWS!

[krbvroc1]

Tandy Corporation is rumored to have just made TRS-80 firmware open source. With the competitive race to open source things, several dead vendors are trying to ride on the OSS coat tails.

Rumor has it that SwiM Motif may up the ante. Not to be outdone, the Transmeta Linux distribution is being resurrected. OS/2 Warp may follow. Stay tuned...