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Monday, June 03, 2002 4:40:13 PM

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Digex Announces Advanced Database Management Services New Offering Helps Clients Achieve Optimal Database Performance for Online Business Transactions

LAUREL, Md., Jun 3, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Digex,
Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIGX), the leading managed hosting provider for business
on the Internet, today announced the addition of Advanced Database Management
Services. The services, available for both Oracle and SQL Server, go well beyond
ensuring database availability to proactively addressing database performance
issues for clients' transactional sites.

Digex advanced database services employ Oracle Enterprise Manager for Oracle and
NetIQ AppManager for SQL Server. Clients can work with Digex to monitor specific
aspects of a database, proactively detect and respond to potential problems,
tune a database for enhanced performance, and leverage trending reports for
long-term capacity planning. The new services can be used alone or as part of a
complete database administration outsourcing effort to Digex.

"As we focus on developing more complex, transaction-oriented sites for our
financial services clients, we rely on Digex to handle our database
administration needs," said Robert Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer of
OpenClose Technologies, a leading developer of mortgage technology solutions for
the financial services industry. "Our relationship with Digex strengthens our
position in the financial services market and gives us the right automation and
analysis to understand how to improve overall database performance, lifting that
burden off our internal resources."


Digex Advanced Database Services for Oracle

Advanced database services for Oracle provide:
* Bundle of 18 real-time performance monitors, such as data block
corruption, rollback contention, buffer cache hit ratio and tablespace
full, with immediate email event notification.

* Weekly database activity reports, including snapshots of key
performance metrics and proactive recommendations for ensuring database
availability and performance, such as rebuilding indexes or
reorganizing database schemas and tables.

* Complete management of database maintenance and administration
functions, including redo logs, index administration, table space
management, schema management, user administration, security control,
and more.

* Proactive database system performance tuning, such as increasing system
or SGA memory to improve cache-hit ratios.

* Expertise of Digex certified DBAs that manage over 300 hundred Oracle
database servers, 24x7.

Digex Advanced Database Services for SQL Server

Advanced database services for SQL Server provide:
* Bundle of 18 real-time performance monitors, such as user connections,
locks, cache hit ratios, and failed jobs, with immediate event
notification via email or XML.

* Over 60 different daily, weekly and monthly reports on 16 SQL Server
performance metrics, such as database transactions per second or
database growth rates.

* Detailed trending information for capacity planning that can be easily
accessed anytime, anywhere through Digex ClientCentral, one of the
industry's top-rated customer portals.

* Self-service capabilities that allow customers to easily setup and
manage alert notification settings and recipients, enable or disable
individual alerts as needed, filter alerts based on message size or
frequency, and access a log of all SQL Server event notifications.

* Expertise of Digex certified DBAs that manage over 700 hundred SQL
database servers, 24x7.

"The database is at the heart of every serious e-business site," said Martha
Gilbertson, vice president of product management at Digex. "Poor performance at
the database level can result in failed transactions, unacceptable response
times and ultimately lost business. We have chosen best- of-breed technology
with both Oracle Enterprise Manager and NetIQ AppManager so that as clients move
more of their vital applications to the Internet, they can be assured of proper
management of their key corporate data and optimal performance of their sites."

About Digex

Digex is the leading managed hosting provider for business on the Internet.
Digex customers, from mainstream enterprise corporations to Internet-based
businesses, leverage Digex's services to deploy secure, scaleable, high
performance business solutions, including electronic retailing, online financial
services, online procurement and customer self- service applications. Digex also
offers value-added enterprise and professional services, including performance
and security testing, monitoring, reporting and networking services. Additional
information on Digex is available at http://www.digex.com" TARGET="_blank">http://www.digex.com" target="_new">http://www.digex.com">http://www.digex.com .

About the WorldCom-Digex Affiliation

The WorldCom-Digex affiliation strategically combines the custom managed Web and
application hosting expertise of Digex with the shared, dedicated and colocation
hosting technologies of WorldCom to offer businesses of all sizes the full
continuum of secure, dependable hosting services. Powered by the reach and
reliability of the facilities-based WorldCom global network, the WorldCom-Digex
affiliation rapidly delivers scalable, high-availability outsourced solutions
that enable companies throughout North America, Europe and Asia to better focus
on their core business.

CONTACT: Media: Secret F. Wherrett, +1-240-456-3556, secret.wherrett@digex.com,
or Investor Relations: Tania C. Almond, +1-240-456-3800, tania.almond@digex.com,
both of Digex, Incorporated.