Apple Computer and Open Horizon Sign Strategic Pact to Provide Customers
with Transparent Enterprise Connectivity

Joint Development Advances Apple's Commitment to High-End Business
Solutions and Internet/Intranet Applications

Cupertino, California--May 28, 1996--Apple Computer, Inc. and Open Horizon,
Inc. today announced that they have signed a development and co-marketing
agreement to support Apple's customers requiring integration of Macintosh
applications with industry-standard database, security, directory and
application services. Apple and Open Horizon intend to work together
through joint co-marketing and co-engineering efforts to bring Open
Horizon's Connection to the Mac OS. Open Horizon intends to ship
Connection for Mac OS System 7.5 by fall 1996.

With Connection, Apple customers can use the Macintosh as an integral part
of an enterprise solution for their strategic applications. Connection
middleware software will enable Macintosh applications with transparent
support for remote databases that include DB2/6000, Informix, Oracle,
Sybase, and SQL Server; security services such as DCE and Kerberos;
directory services including DCE CDS and X.500; and application services
such as CICS, Encina, Tuxedo, Top End, C, C++, Forte and Dynasty.

"Apple is committed to an aggressive strategy that enables the Mac to play
a central role with strategic business, Internet and Intranet
applications," said Steve Angelo, vice president, Enterprise Sales and
Marketing at Apple Computer. "Open Horizon's Connection is an excellent
solution offering our customers a single client component with access to
key services across the enterprise."

Apple customers adopting Internet, client/server and distributed computing
technologies are faced with a dilemma: these new technologies offer many
new standards with increasingly complex protocols and interfaces.
Connection provides an enterprise connectivity solution that allows
developers to code to standard database interfaces and transparently
derive the benefits of standard security, directory, and application
interfaces.

"The Macintosh can be effectively used to run core business applications,
"said Ron Allen, vice president, JP Morgan. "With the addition of Open
Horizon's Connection, the Mac is enabled with direct access to the core
services necessary to run our strategic applications. The availability of
Connection on the Mac strongly supports Apple's forward direction and the
company's commitment to its customers."

"We look forward to working with Apple to provide its customers a solution
to enable heterogeneous platforms to work as a single, logical computer,"
said Nicholas Zaldastani, president and CEO of Open Horizon. "Apple and
Open Horizon customers are demanding the benefits of the mainframe in a
distributed environment. Open Horizon delivers plug-and-play solutions
that don't require retrofitting of existing applications."

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized innovator in the information industry
and leader in multimedia technologies, creates powerful solutions based on
easy-to-use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, personal
digital assistants and Internet content. Headquartered in Cupertino,
California, Apple develops, manufactures, licenses and markets solutions,
products, technologies and services for business, education, consumer,
entertainment, scientific and engineering and government customers in more
than 140 countries.

Open Horizon, the standards-based middleware company, provides
plug-and-play enterprise connectivity solutions to its customers. The
company's flagship product, Connection, enables customers to add their
preferred mainframe-quality services to new and existing client/server
applications without rewriting a single line of code. By embracing proven
industry standards, Connection allows customers to incrementally add
support for the leading network security services, centralized directory
services, transaction processing monitors, reusable business objects,
databases and management tools. Connection is used by Global 2000
customers for traditional client/server and Intranet/Internet applications
for both two-tier and three-tier architectures.

Open Horizon maintains alliances with leading industry companies, including
Apple Computer, Claremont Technology Group, Deloitte & Touche, Dynasty
Technologies, Forte Software, Gradient Technologies, HP, IBM, Informix,
Mitsui, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sybase and Transarc. For more information
about Open Horizon, send email to info@openhorizon.com, call (415)
598-1200, or visit the Web site at http://www.openhorizon.com/.

If you are considering the purchase of an Apple product and would like to
have product information faxed to you, please call 1-800-462-4396 in the
U.S. or 1-800-263- 3394 in Canada. If you do not have a fax machine or
would like to locate an Apple authorized reseller near you, please call
1-800- 538-9696. Customers outside the U.S. should contact their local
Apple representatives for information.

Apple's home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.apple.com/
 
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