02/16/95

On February 16, 1995 the DCE Users Group of Michigan met at the University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI). The meeting was sponsored by the Client/Server Exchange, a joint partnership of IBM and the University of Michigan promoting open, client/server computing.

Hosting the meeting was Bill Hampton of U-M/CITI. Robert Duncan of Northern Telecom kept the minutes. Thanks to the "Client/Server Exchange" for keeping the coffee pots filled and allowing Bill Hampton the time to organize and coordinate this meeting. The meeting began with a discussion of how to organize the group. We developed a set of guidelines.

ATTENDEE COMPANIES

Attendee Organizations at the first meeting included:

• University of Michigan
• Northern Telecom
• EDS
• Chrysler
• Ford
• Electronic Messaging Systems (EMS)
• Detroit Edison
• State of Michigan DNR

PRESENTATIONS

Ted Hanss, Director of CITI and Chairperson of the OSF End User Steering Committee, gave a review of DCE developer conference meetings and current state of End User Steering Committee activities. He also discussed OSF/DCE V1.1, noting some of the following enhancements:

• sent to vendors in Oct 94
• improved admin features
• improved name features
• new audit features
• new GSSAPI
• extended registry attributes
• 1.1 is a cleanup release

Ted talked about the OSF/DCE V1.2 Pre-Structured Technology Process, including issues such as:

• Xopen certification & branding
• strong input from users
• deployment release
• kerberos support
• hier. name support
• public key
• delegation
• Netware support
• XFN (maybe)
• single thread client
• scalablity issues
• DFS updates
  • token manager improvements
  • performance improvements
  • better server resolution
• Paper from DECORUM 95 available at //www.osf.org:8001/~rsalz/decorum.ps/
• OSF general member meeting in late May in Boston
• -discussion of CORBA/COM/MS-RPC

The question was asked, "What's keeping OSF alive?"
Ted's reponse was "Year-to-year vendor funding and COSE arbitration".

Andy Adamson of CITI gave a summary presentation of DECORUM '95 indicating a tremendous increase in attendance, tools, and use of DCE over the 1994 DECORUM. Andy discussed the keynotes, solutions, onsite vendor list, a product focus list, and an application providers list.

The meeting minutes were kept by:

Robert Duncan
Northern Telecom, Global Information Networks
Technical Services Manager, Global Network Computing
Phone: 313/973-4567 FAX: 313/973-4572

This supplemented version of the minutes was prepared by:

Bill Hampton
University of Michigan - Center for Information Technology Integration
313/747-4405
wrh@citi.umich.edu

If you wish to attend future meetings of the DCE Users Group of Michgan, please call (313) 764-5440 or email dugm-request@citi.umich.edu if you plan to attend. We'll provide directions to CITI if you need them at that time.A map to CITI is also available from the parking page.

DCE Users Group of Michigan (DUGM)
Author: Janani Janakiraman
Revised: 06/18/96
URL: http://www.citi.umich.edu/dugm