Distributed Transaction System Middleware

In 2016 it becomes full 30 years since the introduction of Digital Equipment Corporation Distributed Transaction System - DTS. Since its dawn in Finnish paper industry this middleware product has been solving intersystem communication and application integration needs of large customer organisations worldwide. DTS was well ahead of its time and in some operating environments the only reasonable solution for application-to-application connectivity.

Adopted by Tascomm Engineering in the early 90's DTS grew quickly as a wide product family covering all major business operating systems and hardware platforms. Strong data encryption option was launched while international restrictions for cryptography product sales were still effective. This gave additional benefit for the Finland-originated product.

In the first steps of web application era and browser-based user interfaces DTS quickly found its way to provide easy interface between web server front-ends and legacy database systems. What DTS had been since the beginning - messaging between platforms - became desirable and recognised by the operating system manufacturers as well.

Though many supported hardware systems and communication protocols have practically disappeared from our planet and decades of rapid development in the operating system frontier have made many features of DTS obsolete, there are still thousands of computers running Distributed Transaction System. Support services for all the platforms are also available through Tascomm. The following links provide access to original documentation and distribution kits.

» DTS supported platforms
» DTS documentation
» DTS software distribution kits