Cells will include a variety of objects; all of which will have names that will be referenced by the following three kinds of users:
· Desktop Users - These users are the central focus of the cell and are concerned with solving business problems using the cell resources, having those resources available whenever they need them, and choosing cell resources by simple and meaningful object names.
· Cell administrators - These users are concerned with maintaining the quality and availability of services that the cell provides, controlling access to those services, and ensuring namespace integrity on an ongoing basis. Cell administrators will require privileged access to the cell namespace so they can grow, shrink, or move the cell, add or delete DCE accounts, add or move hosts, and so on. They will also collaborate with application developers to install and name objects appropriately and make them available to the cell's desktop users.
· Application Developers - These users are primarily concerned with creating DCE-compliant applications for cell desktop users. Application developers will require objects with names that are typically only visible during detailed design and coding such as math servers, privileged databases, special printers, and so on. They will need to search the cell namespaces during application development and collaborate with cell administrators to name objects appropriately and make them available to the cell's desktop users.
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