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Digital Descriptor Systems Inc. IBM A.L. Roark combine services on Mexican contract.


LANGHORNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 1995--Digital Descriptor (1) A word or phrase that identifies a document in an indexed information retrieval system.

(2) A category name used to identify data.

(operating system) descriptor
 Systems Inc. (NASDAQ/Small Cap:DDSIU-Units, DDSI-Common, DDSIW-"A" Warrants, DDSIZ-"B" Warrants) announced today that Digital Descriptor Systems Inc./IBM de Mexico/A.L. Roark & Associates, based in Lexington, Ky., have signed an exclusive joint marketing contract wherein IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  de Mexico will be the exclusive distributors and re-marketer of their products.

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, senior security consultant for IBM, stated, "This is an extraordinary opportunity for all three companies to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on`   

v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>.
 the distribution that IBM has in place in the public sector."

Garrett U. Cohn, president, chairman & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Digital Descriptor Systems Inc. stated, "Mexico is the first country where we have signed an exclusive distribution contract. We are in negotiations with several other IBM countries and we expect to finalize these exclusive relationships during 1996, including Central and South America and the Caribbean." Cohn went on to say, "Our current backlog is running at a record of nearly $2 million; however, there are some delays in shipments due to supplier availability that were scheduled for the third quarter which will now be recorded in the fourth quarter."

Digital Descriptor Systems Inc. develops, assembles and markets computer installations, consisting of software and hardware, which capture video and scanned images, digitize the image, link images to text and then store the images with text on a computer database or transmit the information by computer network or telephone transmission to remote locations and other networks such as LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. , WAN and RF.

CONTACT: John De Nigris

Kimberly Militscher, 516/420-1111

or

Digital Descriptor Systems Inc.

Garrett U. Cohn, 215/752-0963
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