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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
                                          Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
Editorial contact:

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OpenVMS Marketing/Computer Systems Group
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                DIGITAL ANNOUNCES DCE DEVELOPER'S KIT
                      FOR OpenVMS VAX PLATFORMS


  Extends interoperability and portability of the OpenVMS operating
     system and facilitates distributed application development


MAYNARD, Mass. -- January 26, 1993 -- Digital Equipment Corporation
today announced the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) for
OpenVMS VAX platforms, and its intention to deliver DCE on the
OpenVMS AXP platform later this year.  The kit includes a subset
of the Open Software Foundation's DCE tools, providing application
developers with the opportunity to design and build distributed
applications that can work on other systems as well.

     "The DCE is rapidly becoming the de facto standard that
supports client/server computing in multivendor office
environments," stated John Adams, vice president of Digital's Open
Network Systems.  "Combined with the feature-rich OpenVMS offering,
DCE is the key element of Digital's distributed processing software
product set; with its significant industry support, DCE is rapidly
becoming the foundation technology for client/server computing."

     The kit provides a subset of the Open Software Foundations'
DCE, enabling application developers to begin designing and building
distributed applications, while still using the robust features of
their current OpenVMS systems.  The kit provides customers with
maximum flexibility for configuring their environment.  OpenVMS kit
components include a Digital DCE Runtime Services Kit and the Digital
DCE Application Development Kit.

     The Runtime Services Kit includes a fully integrated set of
services that provide applications with essential capabilities
required to use distributed services.  The Application Developer's
Kit provides a powerful Interface Definition Language (IDL) that
greatly simplifies the writing of Remote Procedure Calls.

     "The beauty of the Digital DCE product set is that it will
provide users with seamless access to resources, regardless of their
location on their network, thus extending the interoperability and
portability of OpenVMS beyond POSIX and XPG3 BASE branding.  When
customer applications are initially developed on OpenVMS, then
ported to other platforms and then distributed throughout a network,
true interoperability becomes a reality.  The communication
possibilities become extraordinary," added Adams.

     As part of Digital's Open Advantage campaign, Digitals' DCE
products promote consistent and highly reliable programming.  With
the availability of DCE, the operating system and network perform
independently yet compatibly with a user's existing environment.
For example, applications designed via the kit will interoperate
with applications designed with the DCE Starter Kit for OSF/1
(available since May, 1992).

     Digital's implementation of DCE on OpenVMS will occur in
phases.  Customers can begin ordering the initial kit on March 26,
1993, with additional core components on OpenVMS -- Cell Directory
Services, Distributed Time Services and DCE Security -- available
over the following eighteen months.

     "As Digital rolls out the core DCE products, we will evaluate
our customers' feedback on needs for Distributed File System (DFS)
on OpenVMS," noted Rich Kittle, open systems marketing manager for
Digital.  The DCE kit will enable interoperability with Microsoft's
PC RPC via the PC NSI Proxy Agent, to give users the complete
implementation of unauthenticated RPC.

     Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard,
Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked
computer systems, software, and services.  Digital pioneered and
leads the industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor
computing. Digital and its business partners deliver the power to
use the best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center -
in open information environments.
                                ####

Note to Editors:  Alpha AXP, DEC, OpenVMS, VAX and Digital are
                  trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.

                  OSF/1 and OSF DCE are trademarks of Open Software
                     Foundation, Inc.

                  Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

CORP/93/966
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