CA and Apple to Enable Management of MacOS and Rhapsody Systems Through Unicenter TNG.

CA-World '97, NEW ORLEANS, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1997--

MacOS Desktops to Manage The Enterprise

Apple to Make Unicenter TNG Strategic Enterprise Management

Platform

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) and Apple Computer, Inc. today announced that they are working together to enable the enterprise-wide management of Apple systems, including MacOS and Rhapsody, by CA's industry-leading Unicenter TNG solution. For the first time, users will be able to manage their entire IT infrastructure from MacOS desktops using Unicenter TNG's Java-based Web browser interface.

"Integrated management is a fundamental requirement for the effective use of Apple systems in today's enterprise IT environment," said CA Chairman and CEO Charles B. Wang. "Unicenter TNG will enable IT managers to monitor and administer Macintosh desktops and servers with the same ease and precision as the rest of their computing resources."

"By incorporating management by and for the MacOS and Rhapsody, CA will make Unicenter TNG an excellent solution for managing heterogeneous Mac-and-PC computing environments," said Apple Executive Vice President of Marketing Guerrino De Luca. "Working with Unicenter TNG as our strategic enterprise management platform will greatly assist in integrating Apple computers into the corporate infrastructure, and allows users to maintain the low cost-of-ownership for the platform."

CA will enable Unicenter TNG to monitor the same parameters on MacOS systems as it does on other platforms, including CPU utilization, memory utilization, file and disk usage and drive failures. It will also provide Macintosh-specific instrumentation. Apple supports CA's Unicenter TNG object model for IT resource management.

Apple expects Rhapsody, its next generation object-oriented operating system, to provide customers with an environment that delivers industrial-strength performance, stability and new classes of software for computing into the next century, while preserving customers investment in hardware and software. Customers in markets such as print publishing, multimedia, Internet/intranet Web authoring, corporate application development, higher education and engineering/scientific will quickly benefit from the advantages of moving to the Rhapsody platform.

Unicenter TNG is an integrated enterprise management solution that enables organizations to manage all IT resources, encompassing heterogeneous networks, systems, applications, and databases. It provides comprehensive end-to-end enterprise management for TCP/IP, SNA, IPX/SPX and DECnet networks, and 40 platforms including desktops, Windows NT, UNIX, AS/400, NetWare and mainframe environments. Unicenter TNG is the only fully integrated management solution covering network discovery, topology, performance, events and status, security, software distribution, storage, workload, help desk, change management and other functions for traditional and distributed computing environments, as well as for the Internet and intranets. Unicenter TNG's intelligent manager/agent technology delivers highly scalable management of the entire computing environment, including hardware and software.

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 enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has nearly 10,000 people in 160 offices in 40 countries and had revenue of $4 billion in fiscal year 1997. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing [e-mail] or calling 1-516-342-5224.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized innovator in the information industry and leader in multimedia technologies, creates powerful solutions based on easy-to-use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, handheld computers and Internet content. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Apple develops, manufactures, licenses and markets solutions, products, technologies and services for business, education, consumer, entertainment, scientific and engineering and government customers in more than 140 countries. -0-

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