What is Suns Open Network Computing Architecture?
Open Network Computing (ONC) is the Sun architecture, with third party alliances providing the missing pieces. Sun’s RPC is licensed by more than 300 companies, including DEC, IBM, and Apple Computer. It is a lean, efficient RPC that is particularly effective for installations not requiring WAN support. Transport Independent Remote Procedure Calls (TI-RPC) were co-developed by Sun and AT&T. TI-RPC runs independent of the underlying network transport, allowing applications to run unmodified over multiple transport protocols including NetWare, PCNFS, AIX/6000, Solaris, UNIX/SVR4, AIX/ESA. NetWise developed the TI-RPC Application Toolkit source code generation technology.