Many problems arise including security, communications, reliability, availability, serviceability, scalability and heterogeneity. OSF's Distributed Computing Environment helps solve many of these problems. Many organizations have distributed computing infrastructures where a large number of computers are connected together by a network. Powerful workstations are located in the offices of the employees serviced by even large capacity servers. These applications can communicate with each other and share information.
Many problems arise in distributed application engineering and systems.
Some of these include communication, authentication, authorization, data integrity, data privacy, sharing of information, heterogeneous environments, distributed management, consistency of time, reliability, availability, parallel execution, and graceful degradation. Together, they have built solutions to the distributed application problems. The class covers the DCE and how it solves problems. Yes, you, too, can be a DCE programmer.