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                                        Date:     04-Feb-1992 01:56pm EST
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Subject: FWD: This is the OPS5 release that Corporate sent out       

From:	LMOADM::COUTURE        23-JAN-1992 17:36:01.25
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From:	FACMTS::FACMTS::MRGATE::"PKOMTS::POWDML::A1::LEVENSALER.MARY" 
23-JAN-1992 17:36:32.32
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Subj:	DEC OPS5 V4 RELEASE

From:	NAME: Mary Levensaler @PKO          
	FUNC: Corporate Public Relations      
	TEL: 223-6177                         <LEVENSALER.MARY AT a1 at POWDML 
at pko>
To:	See Below


THIS RELEASE IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION.





     	 Adam Couture
     	 Digital Equipment Corporation
     	 (508) 480-5166

     	 Andrew Ostrom
     	 Digital Equipment Corporation
     	 (508) 480-5150



               DIGITAL EQUIPMENT ANNOUNCES DEC OPS5 V4.0


SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- January 22, 1992 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
announced today that it is now accepting orders for the new version of
DEC OPS5 for VAX/VMS, DEC OSF/1 and RISC/ULTRIX platforms.  Shipments 
are expected to begin in May.  DEC OPS5 V4.0 provides support for new
platforms, enhances the power and flexibility of the OPS5 language, 
and eases integration of OPS5 code into bigger applications.
     DEC OPS5, the industry leading expert system development tool, 
has found wide acceptance in a broad range of applications and 
industries where rule progamming enabled the development of 
applications difficult or impossible to create or support with 
traditional programming techniques.  Major successes have included: 
computer configuration, scheduling, power-grid monitoring, fraud 
detection, and financial services advisors.
     "Digital has been involved in expert systems for over a decade, 
and this experience has enabled us to develop tools that are useful 
for solving real-world problems in a production environment," said 
Will Anderson, Manager of Digital's Expert System Technology Group.  
"DEC OPS5's ease of use, high-performance, reliability and scalability 
have been the cornerstone of our success.  These, support for DEC 
OSF/1 and RISC/ULTRIX, combined with the powerful new features found 
in Version 4.0, should make rule programming accessible to the 
mainstream of MIS and software engineering."





Highlights of the major new features of DEC OPS5 Version 4.0 include:
    

     o  Compiler support for DEC OSF/1 and RISC/ULTRIX platforms as 
        well as VAX/VMS
        
     o  Support for an "object-oriented" type data model with object-
     	class declarations, including single inheritance of attributes 
        between classes
      
     o  Greatly enhanced integration capability through improved call 
        interfaces which provide automatic argument type conversion 
        and new NAS compliant, more powerful, run-time library
        
     o  Enhanced language expressiveness including disjunction of 
        condition elements and support for multiple compound 
        attributes per object.

     o  Built-in SQL interface for easy access to VAX Rdb/VMS 
        relational databases
        
     o  DECwindows MOTIF-based development environment for VAX/VMS
            

     "These new features make DEC OPS5 even easier to use and to 
integrate into applications developed with traditional technologies," 
according to Andrew Ostrom, Digital Expert Systems Technologies 
Product manager.  "Support for DEC OSF/1 and RISC/ULTRIX as well as 
VMS further demonstrates Digital's commitment to open systems.  We 
believe that DEC OPS5 can truly provide the "Open Advantage" that 
systems developers need in today's complex, fast changing business 
environment."
     DEC OPS5 V4.0 is orderable now, and will ship in volume in May, 
1992.  Pricing for the compiler-only package starts at $1,225 for a 
single-user "personal use" license for any of the supported platforms.  
A single-user personal use license for the DEC OPS5 Development 
Environment for VMS V4.0 starts at $1,740.  Capacity based and 
cluster-wide licenses are also available.




     DEC OPS5 V4.0 is the culmination of more than ten years of 
Digital experience in building rule progamming applications and tools.  
DEC OPS5 V4.0 is backed by Digital's comprehensive range of training, 
consulting, and product support services.  An extensive portfolio of 
services are available for every stage of project development -- 
including management consulting on the impact of expert systems 
technology, project identification, prototyping, implementation, and 
product training.
     Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard, 
Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked computer 
systems, software and services.  Digital pioneered and leads the 
industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor computing.  
Digital and its partners deliver the power to use the best integrated 
solutions - from  desktop to data center - in open information 
environments.      
                                 ####

Note to Editors:  DIGITAL, DEC, DEC OPS5, VAX/VMS, ULTRIX, DEC OSF/1, 
                  DECwindows MOTIF, VAX Rdb/VMS are trademarks of 
                  Digital Equipment Corporation

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

CORP/92/504


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