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                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.1


         ALPHASERV.COM FINALIZES AGREEMENT TO SELL MANAGED SERVICES AND
                    PROPRIETARY HARDWARE BUSINESS DIVISIONS

                 Company To Focus on Expanding its Internet and
                       Professional IT Services Divisions

SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 01, 2000 - AlphaServ.com (NasdaqNM: ALMI), announced
today that it has completed the transaction with California-based R. E.
Mahmarian Enterprises LLC ("REM") for the sale of its managed services division,
which includes its proprietary hardware manufacturing group, on substantially
the terms described in the company's news release issued on January 4, 2000. As
previously announced, REM will have use of the Alpha Microsystems name, in
addition to all trade names, logos and trademarks associated with the acquired
businesses.

"The finalization of this transaction signifies the consummation of our
strategic business plan to focus on our two highest potential businesses - the
Internet technology division and the IT professional services group," said
Douglas J. Tullio, AlphaServ.com's chairman, chief executive officer and
president. "We can now concentrate on expanding the sales and marketing efforts
of our Internet division, soon to be operating under the name, NQL Solutions
Inc.," continued Tullio. "We plan on growing our technical development group
within this division as well as identifying and evaluating potential strategic
partnership opportunities. Our recent announcement of the NQL Virtual VCR
function and the availability of our Network Query Language (NQL) on the
wireless Palm Computing platform has been very well received and we plan to take
a more aggressive approach in the Internet market."

"The completion of this transaction also enables us to now focus on growing our
professional services division through the expansion of services to customers
primarily in the vertical markets in which we specialize, such as the major
accounting firms, financial institutions, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies
located in the northeastern U.S." Tullio added, "At the same time, we will
continue pursuing strategic acquisitions in this area to further enhance our
professional services offering and increase our market share."

About AlphaServ.com

AlphaServ.com, the d.b.a. name for Alpha Microsystems, is a premier provider of
professional services to the IT marketplace. The company's services include
Internet and Intranet consulting and networking as well as onsite network
support for customers primarily located in the northeastern U.S. For more
information, visit the company's Web site at www.alphaserv.com. The Internet
division of AlphaServ.com, which will be marketing its technologies under the
NQL Solutions name, is the premier provider of intelligent agent technologies to
the global marketplace. This division develops and deploys enabling software
technologies based on its Network Query Language to partner systems integrators
that create information solutions for today's e-businesses, as well as to
organizations developing software applications and Internet services. For more
information, visit www.NQLsolutions.com or call 888.785.3370.

 Certain statements in this press release, including statements regarding the
company's plans to grow its technical development group, to take a more
aggressive approach in the Internet market and to continue pursuing acquisitions
to further enhance its professional services offering and increase its market
share, are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements
involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including (i) the company's
ability to identify and fund acquisitions in the professional services area (ii)
the company's ability to fund and retain the necessary personnel to continue
technical development in the Internet division (iii) the ability of the company
to identify and obtain additional funding for its NQL Solutions subsidiary and
other factors. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.


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