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                                  EXHIBIT 99.3
                                FUTURELINK CORP.


 COMPAQ COMPUTER CORPORATION AND FUTURELINK FORM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP TO BUILD
         OUT ASP DATA CENTERS AND AGGRESSIVELY MARKET HOSTING SERVICES

IRVINE, CALIF. - DEC. 9, 1999 - FutureLink Corp. (OTC BB: FLNK), the leading
Application Service Provider (ASP) with the largest installed base of
application hosting platforms, today announces a partnership with Compaq
Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) to build out FutureLink's data centers
exclusively with Compaq server solutions and services. Compaq has made an equity
investment in common shares of FutureLink with proceeds to be used for
co-marketing FutureLink's hosted application solutions.

The ASP industry is a rapidly emerging segment of the computer industry which,
according to Forrester Research Inc., is projected to reach $6 billion by 2001.
ASPs manage and deliver application capabilities to multiple entities from data
centers across a wide area network. Through its network of data centers,
FutureLink provides its ASP customers with access to complete computing
solutions for a monthly subscription fee. FutureLink's service allows
organizations to outsource all computing service and support, and precisely
manage the total cost of technology ownership.

Under the terms of the agreement, Compaq has extended FutureLink a $20 million
lease line of credit with which to provision FutureLink's data centers
exclusively with Compaq server solutions and services. Compaq's high
availability servers will provide FutureLink customers world-class management
and performance of applications. FutureLink will initially deploy Compaq's
products in its Irvine, Calif. and Calgary data centers. Additional data centers
will be operational in 2000.

Compaq's $2.2 million equity investment in FutureLink will be dedicated to joint
marketing efforts to promote FutureLink's hosted ASP services featuring Compaq
hardware. Joint marketing programs will allow Compaq and FutureLink to align the
strengths of their partners and channels.

"Compaq's partnership is an endorsement of our strategy with substantial
financial support that will accelerate our growth," said FutureLink's Chief
Executive Officer Philip R. Ladouceur. "This enables FutureLink to meet the
burgeoning customer demand for additional data center capacity and gives us the
marketing support to meet our aggressive growth objectives."

FutureLink President and Chief Operating Officer Glen C. Holmes added
"FutureLink currently uses and installs Compaq servers in application hosting
platforms implemented at customer sites. Compaq's state-of-the-art technology
ensures that our customers enjoy access to their applications with the speed,
simplicity and service of a utility."

"FutureLink has tapped the pent up demand for application services by offering a
new and cost-effective IP option for enterprises," said Eduardo Pontoriero, vice
president of Compaq's service provider business unit. "This partnership
showcases Compaq's ability to move quickly, to offer the solutions and financing
service providers need and to demonstrate Compaq's commitment to FutureLink's
growth."

In mid-October a syndicate, led by Pequot Capital Management, invested $50
million in FutureLink in exchange for newly issued shares of Common Stock and
Warrants. The funding enabled FutureLink to complete its announced acquisitions
of Micro Visions of Irvine, Calif., Computer Networks, Inc. of Pleasanton,
Calif. and Async Technologies, Inc. of Detroit, all


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leading North American Citrix resellers and systems integrators. In the fourth
quarter, FutureLink announced definitive agreements to acquire VSI Technology
Solutions, a leading mid-Atlantic server-based computing integrator and KNS,
Europe's leading distributor of Citrix technology and consulting services, with
a channel of 360 active U.K. resellers. These acquisitions establish FutureLink
as one of the largest worldwide ASPs with a significant presence in the US,
Canada and now Europe.

ABOUT FUTURELINK
FutureLink, The Computer Utility Company(TM), is a founder of the Application
Service Provider (ASP) industry and a founding member of the ASP Industry
Consortium. The company has the largest installed base of application hosting
platforms with thousands of customers worldwide.

FutureLink's Application Hosting Services Division provides businesses with
off-site, Internet-based computing, allowing subscribers to escape costly
hardware/software upgrade cycles, precisely control total cost of technology
ownership and focus on their core businesses. The division offers customers an
all-inclusive, trouble-free ASP service at a predictable price and provides
computing service as transparently and reliably as today's utilities deliver
electricity, water and telephone service.

The company's Application Hosting Platforms Division builds application server
farms and provides Citrix application server software integration services. With
Application Hosting Platform solutions, FutureLink customers manage their own
server farms, and provide ASP services to users with their own IT staff and
FutureLink consultants.

For more information, contact FutureLink toll-free at (877) 216-6001; e-mail:
sales@futurelink.net; or visit the FutureLink Web site at
http://www.futurelink.net.


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Forward-looking statements and comments in this news release are made pursuant
to safe harbor provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such
statements relating to, among other things, the prospects for the companies to
complete the transaction and enhance operating results, are necessary subject to
risks and uncertainties, some of which are significant in scope and nature.
These risks may be further discussed in periodic reports and registration
statements to be filed by the company from time to time with the Securities and
Exchange Commission in the future.


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