ON TECHNOLOGY COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF INTERNET FIREWALL TECHNOLOGY

CAMBRIDGE, MASS., APRIL 1, 1996 -- ON Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: ONTC)
announced today it completed the acquisition of all the technology and
related technology assets from neTrend Corporation on March 29, 1996. The
acquisition will be accounted for as a purchase of assets.

Based in San Jose, Calif., neTrend developed firewall technology for
networks supporting both the IP protocol used on the Internet as well as
NetWare's IPX protocol. Vimal Vaidya, neTrend's founder and chief
executive officer, will become vice president of ON Technology's Network
Security Products group.

The acquired technology is designed to use industry standard, Intel-based
hardware and adaptive transparency techniques to provide the application
layer protection that until now has been available only on CheckPoint's
market leading, Unix-based firewall.

In addition to traditional Internet firewall protection, a key feature of
the neTrend technology is protection for dial-in remote LAN access
devices, such as those provided by Shiva, Cisco and others.

"The neTrend technology fits perfectly with ON Technology's expertise
because it secures networks running IP or IPX, the most popular LAN
protocols, and it extends protection to other points of access outside the
Internet," said Christopher Risley, chief executive officer, ON
Technology.

ON expects to ship its first product based on the neTrend technology during
the second quarter of 1996.

"We're very excited about the acquisition of this key technology and we're
looking forward to working with Mr. Vaidya and his team to extend our
Internet related products," said Jay Batson, vice president of
engineering, ON Technology.

ON Technology Corporation is a leading provider of multi-platform network
management and communications software that helps people work together on
LANs and across the Internet. ON Technology products operate on customer's
NetWare, NTAS, LAN Manager, and Internet networks that include
combinations of Windows, Win95, WinNT, Macintosh, DOS, OS/2, and Unix
workstations, using IP, IPX, NetBIOS, and Appletalk protocols.

A publicly held company trading under the symbol ONTC since August 1, 1995,
ON Technology Corporation is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. To receive
information about ON Technology or any of its offerings, readers may call
617-374-1400 or toll-free North America 800-767-6683, visit the ON
Technology home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.on.com, or send
inquires over the Internet to info@on.com.
 
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