In article <[log in to unmask]>, Jim Wowchuk
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
> The story I heard at Interex Denver was that DCE would likely be available
> on the first Express release after the 5.0 Push.  It would also not be
> bundled, as "HP has to pay royalty fees to OSF".  This implied the price
> would be low (perhaps "at cost").
 
And that cost could be really low--I heard last year that OSF had
drastically reduced the license fee for 'client' systems, obviously in the
interest of encouraging deployment.
 
In related news, at a DCE developers' conference last year, DEC was
touting the fact that they bundle the DCE 'client' software with OpenVMS.
HP had no MPE staff at the conference, only HPUX, and so had no
information available there.
 
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Mike Casteel                      Unison Software, Inc.
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