The Forum consists of over eight hundred vendors involved in everything from consumer electronics to network computing.
The announcement represents Digital's latest strategy to compete in the emerging market for network computing.
Mr. Gerstner also said that 25 percent of the company's $4.3 billion research and development budget next year would be devoted to network computing.
The attraction of network computing has long been obvious to the business world, though the technology has often trailed the vision.
The X terminals have been made possible by a new style of computing known as network computing.
The client-server architecture has become one of the basic models of network computing.
He went on to be a pioneer in network computing and play a lead role in the development of the Space Shuttle.
Network Computing currently states that avalability and pricing is still to "be set in later Q2."
At the time, network computing was quite popular, and many of the companies involved were working on similar RPC-based systems.
The powerful campus wide network has created an enhanced awareness for network computing and information processing.