DCE Overview
OSF's Distributed Computing Environment provides services and tools that support the creation, use, and maintenance of distributed applications in a heterogeneous computing environment. This chapter provides an overview of DCE, beginning with a section describing distributed computing and its benefits. The next section describes three distributed computing models: client/server, RPC, and data sharing. The final section gives an overview of DCE itself, describing its technology components, the organization of a DCE environment, and the relationship between DCE and the underlying computing system.