Steve Dirickson b894 WestWin wrote:
>
> What about DCE? My impression is that nobody has it, which means that
> nobody is buying it, so HP wouldn't be giving up anything by bundling it
> with the 918DX.
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C. G. Gunashekar replied :

>        DCE-RPC will be bundled with the MPE/iX FOS of 6.0. Additional
>       DCE client componenets will be made available as a patch
>        which will also be free of cost. This model follows that of
>        HP-UX. Unlike HP-UX we are also delivering the application
>        development tools like IDL compiler, include files etc for
>        client server application developmant. There are no plans
>        to ship the server components with FOS or to even to
>        give it as a patch.
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What version of DCE/3000 will be shipping with MPE/iX 6.0 ?
Currently HP only offers version A.01.12 which is based on OSF DCE 1.0.2.
Most other platforms (including HP-UX) are at least on a version of DCE
which
is OSF DCE 1.1 compliant with all the extra features that this includes.
The older
version which is currently the only offering on the HP3000, means that any
use
of DCE which encompasses an HP3000 must be programmed at the simplest
version
level which provides severe limitations. I would like to hear that HP are
going to offer
a version of DCE with 6.0 which is at least compliant with OSF DCE 1.1.

Cheers,
John Dunlop