BMC Software Outlines Leadership Strategy for 21st Century.

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 1999--

Company Realigns to Increase Customer and Market Focus; Launches

Global Brand Campaign to Showcase Company's Unique Vision for

Around-the-Clock Business Availability

Underscoring its continued enterprise management leadership and impressive surge with recent successful acquisitions, BMC Software, Inc., (NASDAQ:BMCS), today announced a realignment of the company into five strategic business units. The realignment is designed to enhance relationships with customers, raise the company's market presence, develop a more customer and market-focused field organization and to make it even easier to do business with BMC Software.

The company unleashes a new organization backed by:

-- Unparalleled senior management team

-- Industry's best enterprise management experts

-- Unique corporate and solution focus

-- New Market Initiatives

-- New Corporate Identity and Global Brand Campaign

-- Global Professional Services and Support

Single Corporate Vision and Mission

Having successfully completed the high profile acquisitions of Boole & Babbage and New Dimension Software, BMC Software is leveraging the collective strengths of the combined companies creating a new market leader that assures business availability by effectively managing the service delivered by business-critical applications.

The new organization allows BMC Software to work more closely with its customers and partners and to be even more market-driven. The alignment into business units accelerates technology and product innovation - leading to faster time-to-market and increases organizational agility and drives more aggressive strategies to ensure customers' continued success and sustained competitive advantages.

"The rules of business have changed. Our new business model and focus will enable us to evolve with the market and its dynamic requirements," said Max Watson, BMC Software's chairman, president and CEO. "The new millennium metrics - speed to market, agility, flexibility and the relentless pursuit of customer intimacy are now fundamental to our strategy. By adopting a highly integrated, cross-disciplinary approach, BMC Software can forge powerful alliances with customers that result in strategic integrated solutions that significantly drng from a functional alignment, the new organiza to better understand market dynamics and customer requirements and research and development with its traditional responsibilities such as product development, support and quality.

For increased market agility, the sales organizatioons creating a single line of sight from the customer to development;

-- Push greater decision making autonomy, authority and responsibility to the five business on service across the distributed IT enterprises across the enterprise environment including sers achieve business availability goals, facilitated through SpaceView and backup and recovery products across all major database platforms.

-- OS/390 Service Malities.

-- Enterprise Data Availability. business unit include those that optimize database performance and availability across application environmpects of automated production management.

sistent corporate identity worldwide. This includes a new corporate logo, new image and an integrated brand campaign. The campaign is part of a worldwide marketing initiative to showcase BMC Software's unique vision of becoming the trusted partner of customers who require management e future of enterprise systems management - "Assuring Business Availability." The company will develop customer-driven, world-class products, programs and services that will speed the customers' transition in their adoption of such techno  -- Windows NT 

-- Service Assurancepresentatives, and a specialized "Elite" programeir products and solutions from BMC Software. Unique to the industry, BMC Software has successfully engaged customers in the continuous process improvement approach known as the Service Assurance Center. The Service Assurance Center offering consists of equal parts methodology, software and services.

Services are becoming an increasingly important element in the company's value equation. Unlike traditional service offerings today, BMC Software's approach combines implementation and education with complementary services, which extend the company's technologies and practices enabling customers to fully utilize their products and solutions.

BMC Software's pricing philosophy will be centered on becoming a trusted partner for its customers. The company's pricing will offer customers simplicity, choices, flexibility and predictability. This philosophy will create opportunities for BMC Software's customers to leverage their IT investment for competitive advantage.

In all, today's announcement heralds a defining moment in the company's history. BMC Software's vision for the future of enterprise systems management begins today. The company has taken quantum leaps to ensure its business operations continue to scale and, in turn, that customers' business-critical applications are assured for availability and performance today and into the future.

About BMC Software

BMC Software is the world's leading provider of management solutions that ensure the availability, performance, and recovery of companies' business-critical applications. We call this application service assurance, and it means that the applications companies and their customers rely on most stay up and running, around the clock. For more than 18 years, the world's largest companies have relied on BMC Software. BMC Software is among the world's largest independent software vendors, a Forbes 500 company and a member of the S&P 500, with revenues during the previous 12 months of approximately $1.3 billion. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices worldwide. For more information, visit our Web site at www.bmc.com, or please call 800-841-2031 or 713-918-8800.

This news release contains both historical information and forward-looking information. For example, statements in this discussion regarding BMC Software's future financial and operating results, the development of and anticipated markets for BMC Software's products, BMC Software's operating strategies, anticipated acquisition benefits and other statements that are not statements of historical fact are forward looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from any expectation, estimate or projection conveyed by these statements and there can be no assurance that any such expectation, estimate or projection will be met. Numerous important factors, risks and uncertainties affect BMC Software's operating results and could cause actual results to differ from the results implied by these or any other forward looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) BMC Software's revenues and earnings are subject to a number of factors, including the significant percentage of quarterly sales typically closed at the end of each quarter, that make estimation of operating results prior to the end of a quarter extremely uncertain; 2) competition for BMC Software's products is increasing for both the distributed systems and the mainframe database utility products; 3) international results have been volatile over the last two years; 4) BMC Software continues to increasingly depend on large enterprise license transactions as an integral part of its core mainframe and distributed systems businesses; 5) the uncertainties of whether new software products and product strategies will be successful; 6) the high degree of difficulty of integrating different software products and technologies and the general risks associated with mergers of high technology companies, including the potential loss of key personnel and cultural conflicts; and 7) the additional risks and important factors described in the companies' Annual Report to Stockholders on Forms 10-K and 10-Q and other filings with the SEC.

BMC Software, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BMC Software, the BMC Software logo, Assuring Business Availability, Boole & Babbage, New Dimension Software, PATROL, COMMAND/POST, BEST/1, SpaceView, MainView, Enterprise Data Propagation, EDP, and Service Assurance Center are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. in the USA and in other select countries. (1) DB2 is a registered trademark of IBM Corp. Other third-party logos and product/trade names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies.