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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.[1][2] The DCE supplies a framework and a toolkit for developing client/server applications.[3] The framework includes:
- a remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism[4] known as DCE/RPC
- a naming (directory) service[4]
- a time service[4]
- an authentication service[4]
- a distributed file system (DFS)[4] known as DCE/DFS
The DCE did not achieve commercial success.
As of 1995, all major computer hardware vendors had an implementation of DCE, seen as an advantage compared to alternatives like CORBA which all had more limited support.[4]: 13
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