Introduction
It was almost eight years ago on a balmy Southern California January at the beautiful La Jolla Shores Hotel. And there we were. Indoors. Arguing the merits of assorted remote procedures called APIs: Sun Microsystems' ONC RPC versus everyone elses'. The occasion was an X/Open Systems Management Working Group meeting. The task before us was to select a standard RPC API. With it, we could establish a base platform upon which we could further accept implementations that would form the basis for a standard management platform. But a resolution never came. The “RPC Wars” were too fraught with N.I.H. (Not Invented Here) and things political. By week's end, there was no resolution or progress. The folks from the east coast would have to head ...
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