Boole & Babbage Partners with MQSoftware to Help Customers Exploit Benefits of MQSeries Middleware; MQSoftware Delivers Implementation and Management Services to Boole & Babbage Customers Worldwide.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 1996--To complement its COMMAND/MQ(TM) suite for managing IBM's MQSeries messaging middleware, Boole & Babbage, Inc. (NASDAQ: BOOL) today announced a strategic partnership with MQSoftware, Inc. to help customers smoothly deploy and manage distributed MQSeries networks.

Boole & Babbage customers will benefit from MQSoftware training sessions, onsite expert consulting and an interactive educational forum on the Boole & Babbage web site (http://www.boole.com), all designed to assist customers in understanding the issues behind MQ technology.

MQSoftware, based in Minneapolis, MN, specializes in consulting, training and software development for users of MQSeries middleware, which has become the key enabler of client/server applications. Comprised of a team of senior technical and management consultants, MQSoftware is focused exclusively on the implementation and performance of MQSeries message queuing technology.

"With over 20 years of messaging, network and project management experience, MQSoftware understands the critical application and administrative requirements as well as day-to-day operations of MQSeries networks," said Chris O'Connell, Boole & Babbage product marketing director, large systems software. "Whether customers are in the information-gathering stage or revamping their distributed application architecture to include messaging middleware, MQSoftware has the talent and track record to guarantee successful implementations."

"Although there is a lot of excitement about MQSeries, this is a brand new area for most companies," said Bill Cecchi, president of MQSoftware. "To move the MQSeries implementation along quickly, it makes sense to combine MQSoftware's expertise and understanding of the principles of messaging middleware with management products from Boole & Babbage, one of the world's leading systems management vendors."

MQSoftware offers a host of services, including installation of MQSeries on UNIX, Windows NT and OS/2 platforms; operation, performance and security improvements; and implementation across more than 30 platforms and communications protocols. These services are available from consultants directly or through training of IS personnel in customers' organizations.

To complement the newly available training and consulting services, Boole & Babbage has enhanced its web site with an educational forum called, "Ask the Experts." Customers can use this forum to ask Boole & Babbage MQ experts and MQSoftware consultants questions about exploiting the benefits of MQSeries in site-specific situations. General news and information related to MQSeries will also be available.

Boole & Babbage provides the COMMAND/MQ product suite, comprised of components for managing the availability and performance of MQSeries across multiple platforms.

Boole & Babbage is the worldwide leader in availability, performance and storage management solutions for distributed systems. Its Enterprise Automation solution set manages application availability from end-to-end, maximizing uptime and reducing operational costs for even the most complex IT enterprises. Through advanced interoperability with leading frameworks and a flexible architecture easily scaled to customer requirements, Boole & Babbage products provide a comprehensive systems management and automation solution for all applications, networks and computers -- from the mainframe to the desktop. -0-

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