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FORMAL PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release                              Contact: Joseph McLean
November 27th, 2000                                    pr@distributed.net


          DISTRIBUTED.NET AND UNITED DEVICES JOIN FORCES

        New Strategic Alliance Set to Shake up the Industry

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Nov. 27, 2000 -- Distributed Computing Technologies, 
Inc, distributed.net, announced today that it has entered a strategic
partnership with United Devices, Inc.  Based in Texas, United Devices
(www.ud.com) is a leading commercial developer of distributed computing
technology.

Under the terms of the alliance, distributed.net and United Devices
will continue to exist as two independent companies that serve different,
yet complimentary, purposes.  The two companies will maintain a
cooperative relationship, working together to further the development
and adoption of large-scale distributed computing.

Fourteen distributed.net members will join the ranks of United Devices'
development and strategic teams in Austin, Texas and Berkeley, California,
where a new development team will be consolidated.  "As our popularity and
scale have grown, so have our time requirements," said Jeff Lawson,
co-founder of distributed.net.  "This move is a very natural progression
for us all and enables the team to focus full time on what we love doing
the most."

Terms of the personnel & technology deal include a United Devices sponsored
Compute-A-Thon which will enable the distributed.net charity to raise more
than $100,000 US in donations.  United Devices will also donate hosting
services to many high-traffic portions of the distributed.net project
group.  In addition, United Devices has donated hardware to the company,
replacing equipment that could barely keep up with distributed.net's
rapidly expanding user base.

Most importantly of all, distributed.net can now work closely with United
Devices and its CTO, Dr. David Anderson.  Prior to joining United Devices,
Dr. Anderson acted as director of SETI@Home -- a project widely recognized
as one of the most successful entrants in large-scale distributed
computing, which distributed.net helped to pioneer and define in 1997.

For our part, distributed.net continues to believe in the viability of
non-commercial computational feats, projects, and experiments in
distributed computing.  Public interest remains strong in these areas, and
the company is fully committed to its roots in the non-profit community.
At the same time, distributed.net is pleased to recognize the arrival of
serious commercial enterprise, and all the opportunities that follow.

Of course, the new employment contracts of all fourteen members specifically
allows for continued volunteer work at distributed.net, presenting a "best
of both worlds" scenario to distributed.net.  "This is a perfect solution,"
says Lawson, "one that will bring increased focus on all aspects of
distributed computing.  We have gained an ally and lost nothing of our
team."

Staff who are joining United Devices: From the board, Peter Gildea,
Jeff Lawson, Jim Nasby, and David McNett.  From the general team,
Daniel Baker, John Bishop, Rey Flemings, Jerome Froment-Curtil, Paul
Gentle, Gordon Grieder, Phillip Hamilton, Greg Hewgill, Ivo Janssen,
and Cyrus Patel.

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ABOUT DISTRIBUTED.NET Distributed Computing Technologies, Inc. is the
world's largest non-profit venture in distributed computing.  Thanks
to the sudden ubiquity of the internet, computer users can join forces
in tackling great and seemingly insurmountable computational
challenges - all while their computer sits idle. The final sum of
these 'idle cycles' is enough to challenge the dominance of even the
most expensive mainframes and research computers.  More information is
available from the official distributed.net web site,
<http://www.distributed.net/>.

ABOUT UNITED DEVICES United Devices, Inc., headquartered in Austin,
Texas, is a technology company that develops and manages the
infrastructure required to aggregate idle computation, storage, and
bandwidth resources on the Internet or corporate intranets.  United
Devices delivers this unprecedented power in the form of application
services for a number of industries, including Bioinformatics, Web
Testing and Monitoring, and Content Search and Management.  For more
information, visit United Devices's Web site, <http://www.ud.com/>.


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