DATA GENERAL FIRST TO OFFER BENCHMARK PERFORMANCE GUARANTEE FOR
PEOPLESOFT'S HR SOFTWARE

"Enterprise class" tests support up to 13,000 employees per hour

WESTBORO, Mass., September 5, 1995 -- Data General Corporation today
announced that it would be the first company to offer packaged-priced
hardware and service configurations with benchmark performance guarantees
to users of PeopleSoft Inc.'s Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS)
software.

The Data General benchmark performance guarantee states that its AViiON
servers running the PeopleSoft HRMS software will perform to the batch
payroll processing benchmarks recently completed by the two companies.
Initially, Data General will offer four packaged- price configurations to
support payroll processing for businesses ranging in size from 5,000 to
120,000 employees. The range of configurations and performance guarantees
is expected to broaden as additional benchmarks are established.

Frank Strelau, director of Channel Development for PeopleSoft, said, "Data
General's highly innovative benchmark performance guarantee program offers
customers the assurance of a solution that can deliver true enterprise
class performance today, yet can be confidently scaled up to meet future
requirements. This should help a lot of customers by removing much of the
uncertainty from their decision to move to client/server."

According to Sue Sweeney, Data General's vice president of Strategic
Alliances, "These benchmarks demonstrate that even the largest commercial
enterprises will now be able to benefit from PeopleSoft's world-class
human resources system, and be assured that they will get outstanding
performance."

The packaged-price configurations include the company's popular AViiON
servers, CLARiiON data storage hardware, DG/UX (UNIX-based) operating
system, service and training as well as automatic hardware upgrades and
flexible leasing options. PeopleSoft is responsible for providing the HRMS
software.

The performance benchmark guarantee is based on an extensive series of
batch payroll systems tests conducted by Data General and PeopleSoft using
PeopleSoft's HRMS 4.0 software. In the tests, payroll for 120, 000
employees was processed in nine hours and 14 minutes, a rate of 13,000
employees per hour. This was accomplished using a Data General AViiON 9500
UNIX based server running the DG/UX operating system and a CLARiiON fault
tolerant disk array.

Kevin Reilly, vice president of information systems for Richardson
Electronics, said, "Richardson Electronics has been extremely pleased with
the implementation of PeopleSoft on AViiON. We believe the PeopleSoft and
Data General offering will provide us with the flexibility and power in a
client/server environment to support us now with our 700 users, and as we
continue to grow, while allowing ad-hoc queries and excellent
performance." Richardson Electronics, which is based in LaFox, Illinois,
is an international distributor of CRTs, semiconductors and vacuum tubes.

The Data General benchmark performance guarantee program is an attractive
option for any company that has historically run payroll processing on
high-end mainframes or outsourced its payroll processing and is now
considering a move to client/server. The program combines the flexibility
of true client/server architecture with rich functionality and high
performance.

Data General guarantees the performance of the specified configurations
based on the recently completed benchmark tests and says the testing will
continue into the future to meet changes in customer requirements.
Available hardware upgrades are built into the program to match
anticipated growth in the number of users and transactions as well as the
possible expansion of PeopleSoft software modules.

For additional information, a Data General/PeopleSoft Partnership Hot Line
has been established. The phone number is 508-898-4986.

About PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft leads the industry in providing client/server business solutions
worldwide. PeopleSoft products -- PeopleSoft Financials, PeopleSoft
Distribution, PeopleSoft HRMS and PeopleTools -- are targeted for large
corporations and deliver portable and scalable client/server applications.
The products are backed by the award-winning PeopleSoft customer service
and support team.

PeopleSoft has customers in nearly every industry and geographic region in
the world, including a cross-section of Fortune 1000 organizations.
PeopleSoft licenses its products through direct sales offices and
distributors in the U. S., Canada, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America and
Africa. PeopleSoft was named the fastest-growing software company in
America by Fortune magazine.

About Data General

Data General is an open systems company that specializes in providing
servers, storage systems and related software and services to information
systems users. The company, which was established in 1968, does business
in 70 countries throughout the world. In fiscal 1994, Data General
reported revenues of $1.12 billion.

The company's flagship product is its AViiON server line, which by the end
of this year will have an installed base of 30,000 systems with a total
value of $2 billion. The award winning AViiON line has ranked number one
in Computerworld's Customer Satisfaction survey three years in a row.

In addition, the company's Unix operating system, DG/UX, has been rated as
the finest commercial UNIX operating system by the Illuminata consulting
group.

Additional information on Data General, its products, and services is
available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com or gopher.dg.com.
 
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