Boole & Babbage Welcomes Tivoli to the IBM SystemView Family

San Jose, California -- January 31, 1996 -- As one of the initial members
of the IBM SystemView Advance Team, Boole & Babbage, (NASDAQ: BOOL)
announced its support of today's IBM/Tivoli merger. The SystemView
partnership has enabled Boole & Babbage to develop and deliver significant
integration between its client/server and mainframe products and the
SystemView framework.

"Although this move narrows customers' choices in vendors, it also merges
two competing frameworks and underscores the opportunity for ISVs like
Boole & Babbage to deliver value through interoperability," said Jack
Brown, senior marketing director of distributed systems at Boole &
Babbage. With this announcement, Boole & Babbage will continue to add
value to the IBM framework by extending enterprise- level application
availability management and correlation to every element in the
enterprise.

"Because Boole & Babbage provides a combination of agent- and message-
based technology, its products can scale to an enterprise level and
address standard, non-standard and emerging technologies such as ATM and
FDDI -- all from a central point-of-control," continued Brown.

"IT managers are anxious to have vendors get on with the business of
delivering interoperable solutions, instead of fighting over standards,"
said Bert Cooley, technical leader in information systems at New York
State Electric & Gas Co. "We truly benefit when vendors like Boole &
Babbage deliver seamless interoperability with our other key suppliers'
products, such as IBM SystemView ."

Boole & Babbage also stated that in a recent nationwide survey of IT
leaders responsible for distributed systems management, an overwhelming
majority indicated that they were leaning toward selecting HP OpenView as
their framework of choice. "This initiative certainly gives IBM SystemView
greater visibility in a crowded market," said Brown.

Boole & Babbage is the worldwide leader in Enterprise Automation solutions
for distributed systems. The company works in partnership with customers
to boost systems availability, reduce overall computing costs and
strategically automate the entire IT enterprise. Through advanced
interoperability, its proven solutions let customers gain proactive
control of their distributed computing environments -- from mainframe to
desktop and legacy to client/server. Boole & Babbage products complement
Help Desk, data center operations, network and systems administration and
storage management.

Boole & Babbage has 42 offices in 26 countries, including three data
centers and four development labs. The company's products are available
through direct channels and a worldwide network of distributors and
resellers.
 
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