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More separation of the core services from network and file management When systems vendors talk about microkernels, what are they talking about? A new style of popcorn fro Orville Redenbacher? […]

MS0057 Users are complaining. Response time keeps going up, throughput keeps going down. You need objective measures of system load, and some way to identify bottlenecks. If you want to […]

GROWTH OF UNIX MARKET TRIGGERS STANDARDS BATTLE AFTER YEARS OF NEAR TOTAL neglect in the financial services industry, the Unix operating system is demanding attention from Wall Street's MIS departments. […]

Group seeks to embrace COSE SAN FRANSCISCO -- The Open Software Foundation will focus on coordinating its members' development of standard technology and de-emphasize developing technology on its own under […]

The Open Software Foundation (OSF) will build Corba compliance into the next release of its Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), say sources familiar with the decision. The move is OSF's solution […]

After two years of conspicuous silence, the Open Software Foundation later this month will announce licensing terms for key portions of its DME technology. The announcement, scheduled for the Aug. […]

Following a trend toward microkernal-based operating systems, the Open Software Foundation is developing a new version of its Unix operating system aimed at providing better support for real-time, distributed client/server […]

The wait for compliant apps could be two years CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Although the promise of a Distributed Management Environment (DME) framework is nearing reality, users can expect a two-year […]

LITTLETON, Mass. -- Emphasizing the architecture's multivendor reach, DEC late last month bolstered the Unix systems and network management capabilities of Polycenter, its operations-management tool set for distributed systems and […]

The Open Software Foundation is shifting its emphasis away from OSF/I to concentrate on building distributed computing and management software. OSF wants to retarget itself as a 'middleware' manager, handling [...]

SM0029 The world of software that manages centralized, mainframe-based information systems, always the domain of IBM, has now been identified as a strong target market by suppliers of competitive hardware […]

DEC among finalists for OSF distributed management DALLAS -- The Open Software Foundation (OSF) at the Uniforum trade show last week released the names of 25 companies that have submitted […]

OSF Picks HP Pack Over Sun's BOSTON -- The Open Software Foundation last week detailed plans to incorporate network computing technology, based primarily on Hewlett-Packard Co. software, with its OSF/1 […]

New UNIX group picks RISC, eyes Motorola 88000 as chief chip It is only four months old, but already the Open Software Foundation (OSF) has made it clear that it […]

The Open Software Foundation Inc. has released a snapshot of its World-Wide Web browser and server software that uses DCE to cover some of the Web's weaknesses. The OSF modified […]

BRUSSELS -- With the announcement of its network management software, the Open Software Foundation (OSF) made a bid to relaunch itself last week at a major meeting of its international […]

In a move aimed at bringing Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) to more platforms, the Open Software Foundation (OSF) will scale back the memory requirements to 8MB for the next version, […]