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 | | From: | Mark Allen Earnest | | Subject: | DCE 1.2.2 Available under Open Source LGPL License | | Date: | Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:10:56 -0500 |
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 | From the Open Group's website -
http://opengroup.org/comm/press/05-01-12.htm
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"
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