Acquisition

Nokia Corporation
1 February 2000

Nokia to Acquire Network Alchemy

- Network Alchemy's Unique IP Clustering Technology
Strategic to Nokia's Vision of a Mobile Information Society -

Nokia today announced its intent to acquire Network Alchemy, the
Santa Cruz, California based leading provider of IP Clustering
solutions.  This acquisition provides a platform from which Nokia
will build high availability, highly scalable and secure solutions
required to support the high number of on-line transactions
envisioned in a Mobile Information Society.

Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia ADSs (American Depositary
Shares and Nokia stock options worth approximately US$335 million
in total will be exchanged for the outstanding capital stock of
Network-Alchemy. The closing of the transaction is subject to
customary closing conditions and is expected to occur in the first
quarter of 2000.

'The acquisition of Network Alchemy provides Nokia with world-
class expertise and patented IP Clustering technology,' said T.
Kent Elliott, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Nokia
Internet Communications.  'As Nokia enables users to take greater
advantage of on-line transactions -- and as businesses
increasingly rely on the Internet to expand addressable markets --
availability, scalability and security become critical.'

'Nokia and Network Alchemy share a common vision of the need for
reliable and scalable network solutions,' said Kenny Frerichs,
President and CEO Network Alchemy.  'As a global organization,
Nokia clearly has the ability to successfully implement the highly
available, scalable and secure solutions customers need to compete
and win in the exploding Internet economy.'

About Network Alchemy
Network Alchemy was founded in September 1997 to develop and
market non-stop infrastructure solutions that advance the use of
the Internet for secure private communications, commerce and
collaboration. The founders, recognized for their innovations in
the fields of TCP/IP networking, security and operating systems
software, developed the industry's first secure IP clustered
networking solution that delivers true scalability, high system
availability and superior price performance, with no single point
of failure.  For more information, please visit www.network-
alchemy.com

Nokia Internet Communications, headquartered in Mountain View
Calif., develops and markets products for the enterprise and
managed service provider markets. These products include Nokia's
unique corporate Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) software
solutions, industry leading high-availability network appliances,
market-leading appliancized applications from partners including
Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) and Websense, Inc.

About Nokia
Nokia is paving the way to the mobile information society with its
innovative products and solutions. The company is the leading
mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and
IP networks, related services as well as multimedia terminals. In
1999, Nokia's net sales totaled EUR 19.8 billion (USD 19.9
billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New
York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock
exchanges and employs more than 55 000 people. Visit Nokia on the
Web at www.nokia.com

For further information, please contact:
Nokia Corporate Communications
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Laurie Armstrong
Nokia Internet Communications
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Deborah Mullan
Ketchum Thomas for Nokia
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