High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Distributed Computing Environment is a software system developed in the early 1990s by a consortium that included Apollo Computer, IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, and others. The DCE supplies a framework and toolkit for developing client/server applications. The framework includes a remote procedure call mechanism known as DCE/RPC, a naming service, a time service, an authentication service and a distributed file system known as DCE/DFS. DCE was a big step in direction to standardisation of architectures, which were manufacturer dependent before. Transforming the concept in software for different platforms has been given up after a short period. Similar to the OSI model DCE was not granted success, the underlying concepts however prevailed.

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