CA adds agentworks and two new technologies to CA-Unicenter at no additional cost; Also Broadens Market Appeal For CA-Unicenter By Lowering Entry-Level Pricing; Standardizes Pricing For Former Legent Products.

unprecedented move to broaden the appeal of its enterprise network and systems management technology, Computer Associates today announced that clients licensing CA-Unicenter will receive, without additional cost, software valued at more than 40 percent of CA-Unicenter's price. This software includes Agent technology recently acquired from Legent Corporation and new CA-Unicenter technology for single sign-on and system alert management.

"We are delighted to be able to offer CA-Unicenter clients such value-added features," said CA President and COO Sanjay Kumar. "We have pushed hard for quick integration of Agentworks with CA-Unicenter to expand its technology base. With the combined strength of the new CA-Unicenter options, our solutions will be more affordable to more organizations."

Incorporating Legent's Agent technology extends CA-Unicenter's lead in enterprise network and systems management. Agents complete the evolution of CA-Unicenter into a highly scaleable enterprise network and systems management solution, employing a truly distributed client/server paradigm. Customers can choose whether a server will act as a policy enforcer or a policy maker in an extended network.

Also today, CA lowered the entry-level price of CA-Unicenter by 43 percent to mirror hardware price reductions and expand market share. CA also standardized pricing for former Legent products and restructured pricing for mainframe systems management products.

New Agent Technology For CA-Unicenter

The new software now integrated with CA-Unicenter includes the Agentworks Manager and Agentworks GUI technology and new CA-Unicenter options including Single Sign-on and System Alert Agent, as well as CA-Unicenter Managers and Agents.

"CA-Unicenter is evolving into an 'agent-centric' product line," said Dr. Paul Mason, director of Enterprise Systems Management at International Data Corp., Framingham, MA. "CA is raising the bar in enterprise management by incorporating, at no extra charge, Legent's Agentworks technology into CA-Unicenter and giving customers an even bigger bang for the buck."

Lower Power Unit Pricing For CA-Unicenter

CA has lowered entry level CA-Unicenter pricing from $700 per power unit to $400 per power unit, making it easier for entry-level customers to implement an integrated network and systems management strategy. The new power unit pricing has been extended for CA-Unicenter on all LAN and Unix platforms, including Windows NT, Netware and SCO. Power units, a metric based on raw computing power, give users ultimate flexibility in deploying CA-Unicenter/Managers and CA-Unicenter/Agents.

By dynamically redefining which systems act as clients and which act as servers, larger organizations can deploy this critical functionality in support of the enterprise more easily and cost-effectively.

Expanded Support For CA-Unicenter

Enhancements to CA-Unicenter maintenance support include functional product upgrades, in addition to telephone support and bug fixes. CA is also offering CA-Unicenter Onsite Premium Support, a new service which places a full-time CA Enterprise Management Specialist at a client site to ensure effective implementation. This service will enable clients to reap the full benefits of deploying CA-Unicenter more rapidly.

Pricing Standardization Of Former Legent Products Pricing of former Legent Corporation products has been incorporated into CA's industry-leading pricing structure. CA is the only independent software vendor that publishes a price book.

"This pricing announcement brings every one of the former Legent products into the fold of CA's pricing structure," Kumar said. "The benefit of standardization is that customers do not have to manage multiple sets of terms and pricing structures."

Users of the former Legent products acquired by CA will enjoy a number of benefits including a simpler pricing structure and MIPS-based enterprise multiple licensing options.

"High-end Legent customers should also rejoice at CA's pricing decisions," said Brandon Musler, senior analyst at Illuminata, a research analyst firm headquartered in Nashua, NH. "Though it defies conventional wisdom, Legent actually charged more than CA for many products. Ex-Legent customers will pay less for the same products under the CA label."

"We now have a six-year agreement for CA and former Legent products that provides us with significant savings and built-in flexibility to accommodate our growth," said Ronald Charmoy, vice president, information services, Beneficial Technology Corporation. "Like anyone today, the pressure is on to deliver new services while controlling costs. CA's flexibility enabled us to meet our growth demands and add a second site for additional processing and disaster recovery while managing expenses."

Mainframe Software Price Restructuring

For the first time in CA's history, license and maintenance prices for some of the company's most popular mainframe products -- CA-1, CA-7, CA-11, CA-Scheduler and CA-Librarian -- have been reduced. Price reductions, which range from 1 to 5 percent, are reflective of CA's ability to pass along cost savings to its clients. Although pricing for some mainframe products will increase, most product prices will remain the same.

"CA enjoys certain economies of scale for those mainframe software products with the broadest user base," Kumar said. "Whenever possible, we are happy to share such cost savings with the users of those systems."

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 $2.6 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. CA can be reached by visiting its homepage on the worldwide web (http://www.cai.com).

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