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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
                                          Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
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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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