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

Diane Voelker
UNIX Software Systems Group
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                 OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION CERTIFIES
                     DEC OSF/1 OPERATING SYSTEM
               AND DECwindows for MOTIF USER INTERFACE


MAYNARD, Mass. -- January 25, 1993 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
today announced that its DEC OSF/1 operating system and DECwindows 
for Motif, a graphical user interface, received certification awards 
from the Open Software Foundation (OSF). 

     OSF, a non-profit, independent research and development 
organization, presented Digital and seven other vendors with awards 
for meeting OSF certification with recently developed products.  
Other vendors receiving recognition included: IBM, Hewlett-Packard/
Apollo, Hitachi Ltd., Silicon Graphics, Groupe Bull, ASCII 
Corporation, and Intergraph Corporation.  "The OSF technologies have 
been carefully defined and developed with the help and guidance of a 
worldwide consortium of vendors and end-users, not by any single 
vendor," said David Tory, OSF president and CEO.  "More and more 
end-users are requiring non-proprietary solutions.  This is why so 
many companies are adopting OSF technologies as the basis for their 
products, and will strive to obtain OSF certification, as Digital
has done," added Tory.

     The OSF charter is to provide technologies for true open 
computing where systems and applications cooperate and work together 
independent of the underlying hardware and operating system. 
Currently, the technologies defined are the OSF/1 operating system, 
Motif user interface, DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) and 
DME (Distributed Management Environment).  Certification tests are 
in place for the OSF/1 operating system and Motif interface.  The 
DCE tests are being finalized now. 

     "The OSF standards were developed based on user needs and 
without vendor bias.  They are very comprehensive, encompassing 
other standards such as POSIX and XPG branding from X/Open.  Meeting 
the OSF standards, therefore, is the best proof that products will 
provide true multivendor integration and distributed computing 
capability in a multivendor, multiprotocol environment," said 
William R. Demmer, Vice President, Digital's Computer Systems Group. 

     "Digital's approach is to provide the most robust 
implementation of OSF technologies while providing full support for 
System V applications and utilities, said Vickie Farrell, Marketing 
Manager for Digital's UNIX Product Group.  "Imagine not having to 
worry about what operating system to buy.  OSF/1, the UNIX standard, 
integrates all other open system standards while providing a 
complete business and solution environment for commercial and 
technical computing," added Farrell. 

     In addition to the OSF standards, DEC OSF/1 V1.2 complies with 
POSIX standards, UNIX System Laboratories (USL) System V Interface 
Definition (SVID) 2 and SVID 3 base and kernel, FIPS 151, and a 
number of others.  DEC OSF/1 also includes the DECwindows for Motif 
graphical user interface.  The OSF/Motif interface is the widely 
acknowledged defacto, workstation user interface standard and provides 
a powerful model for interacting with the operating system using a 
point-and-click metaphor.  When all applications on all platforms 
have the same look and feel, the learning curve is much shorter for 
users. 

     "Digital has a strong commitment to providing a true open UNIX 
system through standards compliance.  In fact, no UNIX system on the 
market supports more standards than the DEC OSF/1," added Demmer. 

     DEC OSF/1 V1.2 is on schedule to ship in March, 1993. Through 
an early release program, over 500 customers and CSOs (Complementary 
Solution Organizations) who are developing applications for the DEC 
OSF/1 operating system, have received the software on Digital's 
Alpha AXP platform.  "DEC OSF/1 is an important milestone for both 
customers and software developers in the move to open, standards-
based computing," said Nimish Mehta, vice president of Midrange 
Systems at Oracle.  "Oracle has taken a leadership role in the 
adoption of DEC OSF/1 and our development team has been very 
positive about the functionality, performance, and quality of this 
product.  We have witnessed tremendous interest from our customers 
for DEC OSF/1 on Alpha AXP and have accelerated our product 
development schedules to meet the demand," added Mehta.

     Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard, 
Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked 
computer systems, software, and services. The company 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, AXP, DECwindows and DEC OSF/1 are 
                  trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. 

     		  Motif, OSF, and OSF/1 are trademarks of the Open
     		  Software Foundation.  

     		  System V, UNIX, and USL are registered trademarks
     		  of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.

     		  X/Open and XPG are trademarks of the X/Open 
                  Consortium.  

     		  Oracle is a trademark of Oracle Corporation.

     		  IBM is a trademark of International Business 
                  Machines.

     		  POSIX is a trademark of Institute of Electrical 
                  and Electronics Engineers.

CORP/93/929 
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