IT SOLUTIONS INTRODUCES NEXTSTEP CLIENT FOR HEWLETT-PACKARD OPENMAIL

Year-old relationship between NeXT and HP bears third party fruit

CHICAGO, Oct 3, 1994 -- Chicago-based IT
Solutions announced today that it is shipping a new electronic mail client for
Hewlett-Packard Company's client/server enterprise-wide messaging system, HP
OpenMail. IT solutions has developed a NEXTSTEP application called Emissary
which offers all the power and features of NeXT's native electronic mail
application.  Emissary is now integrated with OpenMail and enables seamless
operation with other OpenMail supported client applications.

OpenMail's server based messaging facilities are independent of the desktop
client interface, and therefore extends its services to all clients using
OpenMail.  OpenMail supports a wide variety of third party client applications
on the Windows, Macintosh, UNIX Motif, OS/2, and DOS platforms via industry
leading client API's, such as MAPI, VIM and CMC.

Ted Shelton, President and CEO of IT Solutions said, "Emissary sets a
new standard of quality for OpenMail client applications by bringing the
popular features of NEXTSTEP and NeXT's own mail application to the scalable
and interoperable X.400/X.500 based enterprise-wide messaging system from
Hewlett-Packard."  Shelton stressed the advantage of being able to package and
route any kind of information with OpenMail as well as other OpenMail supported
client applications being able to access this information. "The inclusion of
Emissary as an OpenMail supported client, extends yet another powerful tool
across corporate enterprises," stated Korak Mitra, Messaging Business Manager
for HP's enterprise messaging solution.

Large companies are looking to manageable and scalable client/server
messaging solutions like OpenMail, because messaging is serving a crucial role
in providing enterprise communication between divisions and geographically
disparate work groups.  Products like HP's OpenMail allow a company
to build a company-wide messaging infrastructure which can become a corporate
information utility -- routing all type of information, extending workgroup
computing across the corporation, linking users to information resources, and
providing automated database access.  This flattened architecture reduces
administration and management costs as well as ensures the safe and reliable
delivery of your information.

NEXTSTEP is a leading object oriented development environment and user
environment.  NeXT, Inc. has introduced a line of object development tools
which allow companies to build distributed, object-oriented applications which
can support enterprise computing requirements.  HP entered into a relationship
called "Object Enterprise" in May 1993.  Object Enterprise was designed to
enable customers to use NeXT and HP technology to develop and deploy
object-oriented, client/server-based applications across the enterprise.

"One gap in the technologies available for enterprise computing," said Shelton,
"has been an efficient way of distributing objects and communications between
processes across the entire enterprise.  With OpenMail and NEXTSTEP we expect
to bridge this gap by providing a line of development tools which allow
corporations to leverage their investment in OpenMail by building e-mail
enabled applications in NEXTSTEP."  This new product line from IT Solutions is
called "Messaging Solutions" and includes end-user applications, configurable
server applications, and object-oriented development tools for NEXTSTEP and
OpenMail.

The first product from IT Solutions in the "Messaging Solutions" product line,
Emissary,  shipped to customers this week.  A second release, expected by the
end of November, will expand the electronic mail application to allow add-in
modules to extend the functionality a user has available.  The first add-in,
allowing access to OpenMail "bulletin boards" will also ship in late November.


Emissary is a trademark of Information Technology Solutions, Inc.  NEXTSTEP and
NeXT are trademarks of NeXT, Inc.

CONTACT:

Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Lisa Glick
(312) 474-7700
lisa@its.com

Hewlett-Packard
Andrew Ransom
(408) 447-1514
Ransom_Andrew/HP-Cupertino_om2@hpiala2.cup.hp.com