COMPUTER ASSOCIATES, DIGITAL SIGN FAR-REACHING ALLIANCE TO OFFER PRODUCTS
AND SERVICES WORLDWIDE

Digital to service and resell CA software; Joint collaboration on future
product development

ISLANDIA, NY and MAYNARD, MA -- APRIL 24 -- Computer Associates
International, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation today announced a
strategic alliance to provide a broad range of products and services to
support the delivery of comprehensive enterprise management solutions to
customers worldwide.

The "Digital-CA Alliance for Enterprise Management" combines CA's expertise
in enterprise management with Digital's leadership in networked computing
and multivendor services. It will enable organizations to rapidly
integrate new technologies -- including Windows NT, UNIX, OpenVMS and the
Internet -- into networked enterprise computing environments.

Highlights of the agreement call for CA to focus on developing and building
business software products, while Digital will provide connectivity
software plus comprehensive life-cycle services and support. CA will
acquire selected POLYCENTER products, resell Digital services and support
Digital's 64-bit Alpha solutions with CA software. Digital will offer
professional services for CA products worldwide and will be able to resell
CA-Unicenter, CA-OpenIngres, and other CA solutions. The companies also
will collaborate on future product development.

Digital and CA have agreed to standardize on a unified enterprise
management environment based on CA-Unicenter. This environment will evolve
from existing POLYCENTER, NetView, and CA-Unicenter products and will also
serve as a platform for integration of other software vendors' systems
management capabilities.

"Today's agreement with a software leader like Computer Associates provides
Digital with a great opportunity to broaden our services business and to
provide an additional sales channel for software products and services, "
said Digital Chairman Robert B. Palmer. "By standardizing on a unified
enterprise management environment, our clients can take advantage of
CA-Unicenter's integrated management platform in deploying their
multivendor distributed solutions," Palmer added.

"We are pleased to extend our partnership to include Digital's highly
regarded, multivendor service organization," said CA Chairman and CEO
Charles B. Wang. "Digital and CA clients are the big winners in this
relationship. They get the best of what both companies can offer --
world-class enterprise software and services, all under one roof. You
could call it one-stop shopping for enterprise management."

Key elements of the agreement include:

        o  Digital will become a worldwide professional service
           provider for CA products as the charter member of CA's
           newly established "Preferred Service Provider"
           program.  Digital will deliver planning, design,
           implementation, support and management services that
           complement CA products.

        o  CA and Digital will collaborate on future product
           development for enterprise management, including the
           tighter integration of CA-Unicenter and POLYCENTER
           capabilities.  Digital customers will be able to
           manage all Digital platforms -- including OpenVMS,
           Digital UNIX and Windows NT -- through a single
           management environment.

        o  CA will acquire selected Digital POLYCENTER products.
           POLYCENTER software professionals will join CA,
           ensuring that customers will continue to receive the
           same high quality products, service and support.

        o  CA and Digital also will collaborate on new products
           and services for the Internet and Intranets.

        o  CA will designate Digital as a Tier 1 partner
           supporting Digital's 64-bit Alpha computing
           environment.  This includes development of the full
           range of CA products, such as CA-Unicenter and
           CA-OpenIngres.  In addition, CA will become an OpenVMS
           and Windows NT Affinity program partner.

        o  CA and Digital will collaborate in joint marketing and
           sales worldwide.  Digital will be able to resell
           selected CA products including CA-Unicenter,
           CA-OpenIngres, CA-MANMAN/X and CA-Masterpiece.  Both
           companies and their partners will sell Digital
           services worldwide.

Officials from both companies said the agreement will result in the
availability of a more comprehensive set of enterprise management
solutions than either company can provide alone. Customers will now be
able to select from a broad choice of products from both companies today,
with the assurance that the continuity and extension of those products
will carry them into the future.

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in
Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software.
The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated
products that include systems and database management, application
development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has 9,000 people
in 130 offices in 36 countries and had revenue of $3.2 billion in calendar
year 1995. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World
Wide Web or mailing info@cai.com.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server
solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information
systems. Digital's Intel and Alpha platforms, storage, networking,
software and services, together with industry- focused solutions from
business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global
marketplace.

All Digital press releases, fact sheets and backgrounders are archived on
ftp.digital.com in the /pub/Digital/info/pr-news directory. They are also
available at http://www.digital.com/info/pr-news/ on the World Wide Web .
 
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