DCE - The OSF Distributed Computing Environment, Client/Server Model and Beyond: International DCE Workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 7-8, 1993. Proceedings

Client/server applications are of increasing importance in industry; they are a significant first step towards a global distributed processing model. A very recent response to this trend is the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) of the Open Software Foundation (OSF), the emerging new industry standard for distributed processing. The papers in this volume discuss the client/server approach based on DCE, illustrating and analyzing the functionality of important DCE components and applica...