DELIVERING THE ULTIMATE MANAGER FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING, COMPUTER
ASSOCIATES SHIPS CA-UNICENTER TNG

Widely-Acclaimed Solution Brings Global IT Infrastructure Under Control
Through Object-Oriented, Scalable Manager/Agent Architecture

Delivers End-To-End Management, From Mainframe To Internet

ISLANDIA, N.Y., May 15, 1996--Computer Associates today began shipping
CA-Unicenter TNG, the first enterprise management solution to let
organizations view and manage their entire information technology
environment--from the mainframe to the Internet--end-to-end.

Unlike platform or function-specific point solutions that manage only a
single resource such as a network or system, CA-Unicenter TNG reaches out
to every IT resource--including hardware, networks, databases and
applications--regardless of type or location.

"Organizations can't get their arms around today's distributed computing
environments," said CA Chairman and CEO Charles B. Wang. "There's just too
much to manage on too many platforms in too many locations, and the change
is relentless."

"CA-Unicenter TNG makes the global IT infrastructure manageable by
providing end-to-end control of every computing platform and information
technology resource," said Wang. "It supports even the most diverse IT
environments. Size, complexity and technology are no longer barriers to
decision making. With CA-Unicenter TNG, you can see both the forest and
the trees."

Through its object-oriented manager/agent architecture, CA-Unicenter TNG
creates an integrated, open and scalable management solution, fully
extensible by third parties and CA clients. All management functions use
its object repository--custom designed for enterprise management--to store
information about managed objects, their properties and relationships.
Managers and agents can be deployed in any configuration to monitor and
report on the status of all managed objects.

CA-Unicenter TNG provides a complete picture of all IT resources involved
in a specific business function, allowing business users to view the
enterprise from their own perspective. Its unique Business Process Views
allow organizations to map business policies to resource requirements, and
then monitor these resources within a particular business context. An
order processing view, for example, only displays resources relevant to
order processing. If a problem occurs, the associated resource can be
immediately located without distraction from resources related to other
parts of the business.

"CA-Unicenter TNG's Business Process Views are the only way that we will be
able to administer the enormous complexity of our vastly-distributed IT
environment," said Steve Rees, director, computer services at Tektronix,
Beaverton, OR. "Removing extraneous information brings to light critical
network, systems, database and application faults."

By displaying the enterprise's IT environment through 3-D object rendering
and animation, CA-Unicenter TNG's Real World Interface makes it easy to
visualize and immediately grasp relationships between system components.
If a flood occurs in a facility in Nebraska, for example, a system manager
can navigate to all affected resources in the state, city, building,
network and node, right down to the impacted databases, applications and
individual business transactions.

"Most user interfaces are designed for technicians and the IT environment
is presented as an abstraction to the way people work," said Wang.
"There's too much data and not enough information. Understanding and
managing the growing complexity of IT environments is becoming
increasingly difficult using traditional GUIs. CA-Unicenter TNG introduces
an entirely new user interface paradigm that models the real world and the
manner in which people work."

CA-Unicenter TNG was designed specifically to work with products developed
by clients and third-party vendors. All management functions share a
common architecture and information across applications and platforms.
These functions are available to developers through the CA-Unicenter TNG
Software Developers' Kit. The SDK offers a rich set of services and
applications which accelerate the delivery of client and third-party
solutions, without the risks and costs inherent in building an
infrastructure.

"We're using CA-Unicenter TNG because it allows us to instrument
business-critical applications to a level not possible with any technology
we found before," said Steve Ruegnitz, first vice president of Lehman
Brothers, Jersey City, NJ.

Applications also can be ported quickly to CA-Unicenter-supported
platforms, including all major versions of Unix, Windows NT and AS/400.
Existing applications can be integrated with CA-Unicenter TNG without
being rewritten, offering additional asset protection. Because
CA-Unicenter TNG is a layered architecture, developers can initially
integrate solutions at one level and increase the degree of integration
over time.

WIDESPREAD INDUSTRY SUPPORT

Prominent industry leaders and analysts lined up today in support of
CA-Unicenter TNG, saying it will create a new class of enterprise
management solutions (note to editors: see accompanying release). Platform
providers such as Compaq, Data General, Digital, Fujitsu Limited,
Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel, Microsoft, NCR, Netscape Communications Corp.,
Pyramid, Tandem and Unisys, along with more than a dozen software partners
and service providers, are working with CA to help clients adopt a
business-centric approach to IT management through CA-Unicenter TNG.

"It is possible that CA-Unicenter TNG will not only revolutionize the world
of systems and network management but will also find applications beyond
that realm," said R. Paul Mason, director, enterprise systems management
program, International Data Corp, Framingham, MA.

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 38 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 emailing info@cai.com.
 
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