Digex, Incorporated (BULLETIN BOARD: DIGX) , a leading provider of enterprise hosting services, announced today it has been listed in the "Leaders" quadrant in Gartner, Inc.'s 2003 North American Web Hosting Magic Quadrant*. This achievement marks the third year in a row that Gartner has listed Digex in the "Leaders" quadrant.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is an analytical representation of a marketplace that measures vendors against Gartner-defined criteria for a specific time period. The positioning of vendors within a Magic Quadrant is based on the complex interplay of many factors. For the 2003 Web Hosting Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluated 14 vendors. To be listed in the Leaders quadrant, a company must demonstrate that it is performing well today, has a clear vision of market direction and is actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.

"We are excited to be the only provider listed by Gartner for the third straight year in the Leaders quadrant. We feel this confirms our vision, strategy, and ability to execute in today's marketplace," says Bobby Patrick, vice president and chief marketing officer for Digex. "Digex provides organizations with a secure, integrated operations environment for cost- effectively deploying Web sites, Web Services and enterprise applications on the Internet. These enterprise hosting services will continue to play an increasingly critical role for businesses as they seek to adopt the Internet everywhere, consolidate technology platforms, extend legacy applications, and strengthen results from IT operations."

About Digex

Digex is a leading provider of enterprise hosting services. Digex's hosting roots trace back to a Maryland corporation under the name "Digital Express Group, Inc." founded in 1990 by a group of Internet pioneers, with an international financial organization as its first hosting customer in 1993. Today, Digex customers, from Fortune 1000 companies to leading Internet-based businesses, leverage Digex's services to successfully deploy business-critical and mission-critical Web sites, enterprise applications and Web Services on the Internet. Additional information on Digex is available at www.digex.com.

About the MCI-Digex Affiliation

The MCI-Digex affiliation strategically combines the custom managed Web and application hosting expertise of Digex with the shared, dedicated and colocation hosting technologies of MCI (WCOEQ, MCWEQ) to offer businesses of all sizes the full continuum of secure, dependable hosting services. Powered by the reach and reliability of the facilities-based MCI global network, the MCI-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.

* The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 2003 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission, which permission should not be deemed to be an endorsement of any company or product depicted in the quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is Gartner, Inc.'s opinion and is an analytical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It measures vendors against Gartner defined criteria for a marketplace. The positioning of vendors within a Magic Quadrant is based on the complex interplay of many factors. Gartner does not advise enterprises to select only those firms in the "Leaders" quadrant. In some situations, firms in the Visionary, Challenger, or Niche Player quadrants may be the right matches for an enterprise's requirements. Well-informed vendor selection decisions should rely on more than a Magic Quadrant. Gartner research is intended to be one of many information sources including other published information and direct analyst interaction. Gartner, Inc. expressly disclaims all warranties, express or implied, of fitness of this research for a particular purpose.

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