Ozone

1. Name:
   Ozone (Object Zones)

2. Source:
   University of Colorado Arcadia Project.

3. Brief description:
   Ozone is a scalable, heterogeneous monicker system for Unix. It is a scheme and mechanism for representing references to any exported object in a distributed environment. The term ``Monicker'' comes from Microsoft's OLE2 specification and Ozone monickers are compatible with the OLE2 Monicker API.

   Ozone provides:

   • Location transparency.
   • Scalability vis-a-vis large numbers of objects.
   • Multi-language heterogeneity.
   • (Limited) support for dynamic reconfiguration.

4. Evaluation against applicable general dimensions:
   1. Availability: commercial/licensed/public domain
      Public domain.

   2. Cost:
      None; it can be made available via anonymous FTP.

   3. Degree of support/maturity/testing/usage:
      An alpha version using ONC RPC is available on request. An OSF DCE version is under development.

   4. Speed:
      Speed is comparable with Sun's ONC RPC/XDR.

   5. Computing platforms:
      It is known to work on Sparcs running Solaris 1. Required Support Systems: Sun's ONC RPC/XDR.

   6. Language compatibilities:
      It is written in C++.

   7. Footprint:
      1. Source and binary: 15 MB

   8. Openness/integrability/source availability:
      Source is freely available.

   9. Extensibility:
      Unknown.

   10. Pedigree:
       Developed by the ARPA sponsored Arcadia project.

5. Contact person(s)

   Dennis Heimbigner
   Computer Science Dept.
   University of Colorado
   Boulder, CO 80309-0430
   dennis@cs.colorado.edu
   (303) 492-6643
   (303) 492-2844 - fax

6. Pointers to literature, demos, etc.:
   N/A