Moving To Distributed Computing: Experiences From The Minicomputer Transition

Openness and standardization is in process but not very far along. As of today, trends are mixed about how well this user-demanded principle will stand up to corporate proprietary urges. A year ago all the big players were marketing openness. But recent events suggest a reircnchmenL The ACE consortium looks moribund. SUN doesn't even make a C compiler for its new machines, so it is a bit harder to eschew SOLARIS for BSD than it was. And so on.