With Open Horizon's family of products, users can choose the right architecture for each application and avoid the philosophical debate. What's more, users can snap on DCE Services at any time with either architecture. Open Horizon's Connection Open Horizon provides a standards-based connectivity foundation called Connection that allows users to implement any desired application architecture using the same infrastructure. And it doesn't lock users in to either architecture. Migration is therefore made easier.
Connection is fully object-oriented and has been implemented in a modular fashion.
In this way, users can simply snap on one or more services to the base connectivity foundation as additional functionality is required. The Connection Architecture. Applications can simply plug into Connection and thereby gain access to any service in your environment databases, TP monitors, gateways, security, and directory services. Progressively Add DCE Services Connection can fully leverage the power of each DCE service, including Security, Directory, Posix Threads, and the RPC components. The DCE Security Service can be used for authentication of each client, as well as for the encryption of data going across the network.