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, 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

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