Bell Canada Signs License Renewal and Expansion Agreement With Candle.

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 1999--

Candle's Availability and Performance Management Solutions

Help Telecommunications Firm Better Manage Its Entire Enterprise

Candle Corp., the leading independent developer and supplier of Solutions for Networked Businesses, Monday announced that Bell Canada has signed a five-year products and services license renewal and expansion agreement that will help the telecommunications giant better manage its computing enterprise.

Candle will now provide availability and performance management solutions for Bell Canada's entire computing enterprise. Bell Canada, the largest telecommunications company in Canada, selected Candle from among other competitors because of Candle's proven track record and its ability to provide Bell Canada with both the solutions and the business terms that best met Bell Canada's requirements.

The agreement includes a license renewal contract for OMEGAMON II performance monitors for MVS, CICS, IMS, DB2 and OMEGAVIEW. To help manage its parallel Sysplex environment, Bell Canada signed up for new licenses for Candle Command Center for Sysplex, CICS, DB2plex, MQSeries and OMEGAVIEW II for the Enterprise.

The contract also includes professional services for product installation, implementation, customization and training. The Candle solutions will support Bell Canada's growth as the company moves into the new millennium.

Bill McGowan, director of contract management for Bell Canada, commented that the company had implemented a parallel Sysplex environment last year and will benefit from the use of the new tools in managing it.

"The Candle Command Center solution will help us identify global locks in our system and prevent outages of DB2," McGowan said. "We were looking at alternatives, and Candle offered a simple and flexible solution to support our growth needs with up to 10,000 MIPS through to 2003."

The deal extends an almost 20-year relationship between Candle and Bell Canada, wherein Candle has provided enhancements in availability of critical systems and applications.

About Candle's Solutions

As a leader in performance monitoring and availability management, Candle offers solutions for a wide variety of operating systems and subsystems. The solutions Candle provided to Bell Canada include:

-- OMEGAMON II performance monitors -- for real-time and historical

analysis of system performance of MVS, CICS, DB2 and IMS; -- Candle Command Center for OS/390 -- the only complete,

enterprisewide solution for managing the parallel Sysplex and its

applications. This solution supports Sysplex (for IBM MVS 5.1 and

above), as well as all supported releases of IBM's CICS, IMS and

DB2; -- OMEGAVIEW II for the Enterprise -- for enabling Candle Command

Center to build alert rules for systems or applications that

cross many platforms for true end-to-end application management; -- Candle Command Center for MQSeries -- an integrated,

enterprisewide solution for managing the availability and

performance of MQSeries resources.

About Candle

Candle, of Santa Monica, is the leading independent developer and supplier of Solutions for Networked Businesses. To help customers connect, integrate and manage their applications, Candle offers products, solutions and services in the areas of application integration, application and response time management, messaging middleware and performance and availability management.

For more information on Candle, visit the company's home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.candle.com, or call 800/843-3970. Customers can also buy solutions from Candle Direct at 800/972-2635.

Note to Editors: Candle, the Candle logo, Solutions for Networked Businesses, Candle Command Center, OMEGAMON II and OMEGAVIEW II are trademarks or registered trademarks of Candle Corp. All other products and services mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.