Globalization Insider

In this issue…

New Challenges in Localization • Colin Brace, Editor and Publisher, The Language Industry Monitor
The LISA Forum in Boston (24-26 August, 1994)
Problems, Trends and Facts for the Localization Industry • Jan Pfefferkorn, MindShare Consulting
COMPAQ Inc. Reorganizes their Localization and Internationalization Procedures
OSF Initiates Localization Program for DCE
What are the GLOSSASOFT Deliverables?
BOOK REVIEW: Understanding Japanese Information Processing, Review I: A Japanese perspective of Understanding Japanese Information Processing • Chiaki Ishikawa, Personal Media Corp.
BOOK REVIEW: Understanding Japanese Information Processing, Review II: A Tour Book for the Land Ahead • Bob Peterson, Digital Equiment Corporation
The LISA Executive Committee reports to the General Assembly

OSF Initiates Localization Program for DCE

Program Provides Consistent Translations in Multiple Languages Across Vendor Platforms

The Open Software Foundation recently announced the initiation of a new localization development program for the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Release 1.1. The program, which coincides with the internationalized DCE 1.1 source code, will translate DCE 1.1 message catalogs and selected documentation into five languages.

"The goal of this program is to provide consistent, high quality, and timely translated materials to DCE 1.1 source code licensees at a fraction of the aggregate development cost," said Peter Shaw, Director of Business Development at OSF. "By coordinating the localization activity for DCE, OSF can ensure that localization costs are shared by all interested licensees, thereby providing licensees with products at a fraction of the cost of in-house development, and significantly accelerating the availability of products translated into local languages to address the global marketplace," continued Shaw. "This may also allow some smaller companies to offer localized products that they might otherwise have been unable to offer."

OSF is proposing the translation of the following DCE 1.1 components into French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish:

Software Message Catalogs
Documentation
Glossary of Terms
DCE Administrator's Guide

The translated documents will be delivered in ISO 8859-1 encoding for the European languages of French, Italian, German, and Spanish, and in EUC encoding for Japanese. The translated document files will contain all the macros necessary to format and produce camera-ready copy in the appropriate format for the targeted language.

A valid DCE 1.1 snapshot or source code license is a prerequisite for receiving the localized materials. In order to guarantee participants flexibility within the localization development program, companies choosing to participate will be allowed to select, at their option, only those translated program components that are of interest to them. Translated components will be provided on a fully paid--up basis. No additional binary royalties will result from use of the localized materials.

The Open Software Foundation is a not-for-profit research and development organization headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with more than 400 members worldwide.