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THE COMBINATION OF SYSOPEN PLC AND DIGIA INC. WILL BE COMPLETED

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Sysopen Plc STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 4 March 2005 at 2 p.m.


THE COMBINATION OF SYSOPEN PLC AND DIGIA INC. WILL BE COMPLETED

Sysopen Plc (SysOpen) and Digia Inc. (Digia) agreed on combining their operations
and entered into a combination agreement on 11 February 2005.

SysOpen and Digia have today together concluded that all essential conditions to
completion of the share exchange offer have been satisfied and thus the share
exchange and at the same time, the combination will be completed.

The share exchange offer was approved by holders of 24,074,300 Series A shares of
Digia representing 99.96 per cent of all Series A shares as per 4 March 2005.
SysOpen has started all technical procedures in order to complete its share
exchange offer and the related increase in share capital of SysOpen in the
earlier announced schedule.

As part of the combination SysOpen has today purchased 100 per cent of the shares
in Eomer Holding Oy (Eomer Holding) and Eomer Holding has at the same time become
a subsidiary of SysOpen. Eomer Holding holds all Digia's Series B shares.

As a result of the approval of the subscriptions in SysOpen's share exchange
offer and transfer of ownership in Eomer Holding, SysOpen holds 99.97 per cent of
Digia's share capital and the votes conferred by all the shares as per 4 March
2005. Digia has at the same time become a subsidiary of SysOpen.

The increase of SysOpen's share capital related to the share exchange offer will
be registered in two parts to the effect that on Monday 7 March 2005, SysOpen's
share capital will be increased by 866,674.80 euros or 8,666,748 new shares, and
on Wednesday 9 March 2005, SysOpen's share capital will be increased by 15,055.20
euros or 150,552 new shares.

The new shares will become subject to public trading on the Helsinki Stock
Exchange on the relevant dates of registering the share capital increases.

Followed by the completion of the share exchange offer, the resolutions of
SysOpen's Annual General Meeting held on 1 March 2005 conditional for the
completion of the combination will now take effect and the new Board of Directors
of the combined company will hold its first meeting today.


SYSOPEN PLC


BOARD OF DIRECTORS


For further information, please contact:

Kari Karvinen, Chairman of the Board of Directors, SysOpen Plc, tel.
+358 424 202 0304

Arto Sahla, Managing Director, SysOpen Plc, tel. +358 400 442 986

Pekka Sivonen, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Digia Inc., tel.
+358 40 7593601

Jari Mielonen, CEO, Digia Inc., tel. +358 40 7038383



This stock exchange release may not be published or distributed in Australia,
Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa or the United States.

The information contained in this release is not to be published in,
or distributed to, the United States. This stock exchange release is not an offer
to sell securities in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of,
U.S. persons, and the securities referred to in the stock exchange release may
not be offered or sold in the United States, except pursuant to an exemption from
the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933. The Share Exchange
Offer or the new shares of SysOpen Plc will not be registered or offered to
public in the United States.

This stock exchange release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation
for an offer to sell, and the shares of SysOpen Plc may not be subscribed for in
any country in which such offer, solicitation or subscription would be unlawful
prior to registration, an exemption from registration obligation or other
acceptance in accordance with the securities laws of such country.

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