DIGITAL AND OPEN MARKET TO DELIVER SECURE INTERNET BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

Merchant Solution and OM-Axcess Packaged With Digital's Alpha Internet
Servers

NEW YORK, New York, March 26, 1996 -- Digital Equipment Corporation and
Open Market, Inc., a leading provider of electronic commerce and
enterprise-wide applications for the Internet, today announced plans to
incorporate Open Markets technology into Digitals Internet products.
Through a technology agreement, Digital will offer Open Markets Merchant
Solution and OM-Axcess software with its Alpha Internet commerce
offerings, to enable merchants to securely run their businesses on the
World Wide Web. The announcement was made at the Internet and Electronic
Commerce Expo.

Merchant Solution is the first complete business solution that allows
merchants to securely run their business on the Web. OM-Axcess is
configurable software that enables a company to centrally manage secure
access to content distributed across multiple servers. Merchant Solution
is available immediately with Digital's Internet commercial offerings.
OM-Axcess will be available at the end of April with these offerings.

"We are pleased to be able to partner with a company like Digital to
further promote secure Internet commerce," said Gary Eichhorn, CEO of Open
Market. "By bundling these products, we're jointly providing a
mission-critical platform for companies to run their business and Intranet
applications on the World Wide Web."

Premier Internet Commerce Solutions

"Combining Open Market's Internet Commerce applications with the high
performance of the Digital Alpha Server platform provides a perfect
solution for businesses interested in full-scale electronic commerce on
the Internet," said Rose Ann Giordano, Vice President of Digital's
Internet Business Group. "Customers will benefit from this partnership
through our delivery of secure, robust Internet and Intranet solutions."

Founded in 1994, Open Market, Inc. offers a full spectrum of
high-performance business software products on the Internet. These
products are revolutionary in their architecture, breadth, and
functionality and enable companies to re-invent the way they do business
in the information economy. Open Market's software products bring the full
range of business capability to the Internet and make enterprise-wide
applications, secure electronic commerce, and industry-specific solutions
possible. The company, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., can be reached
at 617-621-9500 or on the World Wide Web at http://www.openmarket.com.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server
solutions from personal computers to integrated worldwide information
systems. Digital's Intel and 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. The company, headquartered in Maynard, Mass. can be reached
on the World Wide Web at http://www.digital.com/info/internet/.

All Digital press releases, fact sheets and backgrounders are archived on
ftp.digital.com in the /pub/Digital/info/pr-news directory. They are also
available at http://www.digital.com/info/pr-news/ on the World Wide Web .
 
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