Distributed Computing Environment
The 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. The DCE 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 (directory) service
- a time service
- an authentication service
- a distributed file system (DFS) known as DCE/DFS
The DCE did not achieve commercial success.
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