DIGITAL ANNOUNCES ObjectBroker FOR OS/2 AND SOLARIS, EXTENDING OBJECT
LEADERSHIP IN MULTIVENDOR PLATFORM SUPPORT

highlights COM, ease-of-use technology at Object World Boston, booth
#203..

BOSTON, Mass. -- March 21, 1995 --Digital Equipment Corporation today
announced at Object World Boston the availability of ObjectBroker for OS/2
and Solaris, increasing to 15 the number of platforms supported by
Digital's CORBA-compliant object request broker. The announcement extends
the company's leadership in providing object-based application integration
to users requiring powerful connectivity between their desktops and data
servers from multiple vendors.

Digital's ObjectBroker technology first shipped in 1991 and is the
foundation for a range of successful client/server solutions in widespread
use. Its powerful wrappering capability integrates legacy applications as
objects accessed by PC applications, without the need for source code
modifications.

"These announcements underscore our commitment to distributed objects to
implement application integration across the enterprise, regardless of
platform or operating system," said Bob Maiorana, ObjectBroker marketing
manager. "Through ObjectBroker, developers receive the many benefits of
working with a single, robust CORBA- compliant implementation across the
major industry platforms, as well as built-in support for OLE 2.0 and
Visual Basic connectivity."

Separately, Digital's partner Logica Inc. announced the availability of
ObjectBroker for Tandem Computer Inc.'s Non-Stop kernel and UNIX based
Integrity platforms. Logica retains product and market rights for
ObjectBroker on Tandem.

"ObjectBroker on Tandem is a significant addition to our supported platform
portfolio and meets an important integration requirement for a number of
our leading customers," said Maiorana. "We are pleased to have partnered
with Logica to provide this solution," he said.

Digital Demonstrates CORBA and COM Technologies at Object World

Digital's exhibits in booth #203 at Object World Boston highlight its
strategy to make ObjectBroker compliant to both the emerging CORBA and
Common Object Model (COM) standards. COM, announced in 1993 by Digital and
Microsoft, is the developing specification to allow seamless object-based
connections between OLE desktop applications and distributed ObjectBroker
servers on multivendor platforms.

On display in the Digital booth is a native COM implementation connecting a
Windows NT client and an Alpha server running Digital UNIX. Making this
technology possible is the OLE network portal included in ObjectBroker
that uses a COM/CORBA bridging technique to connect desktop applications
such as Microsoft's Excel to distributed servers.

Additional exhibits in the Digital booth include third-party products,
development tools and solutions based on ObjectBroker, as well as
ease-of-use technology that allows developers to generate actual client
and server applications directly from interface definition language.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server
solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information
systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software
and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business
partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global
marketplace.

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