COMMAND/POST Wins the Crossroads 99 A-List Award; Best-of-Breed Enterprise Console Wins in Technology Infrastructure Category.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 1999--Boole & Babbage(R) (Nasdaq:BOOL) a leader in application and service level management for distributed systems, today announced that COMMAND/POST(R) has won the Crossroads 99 A-List Award for in application management in the Technology Infrastructure category.

The Crossroad A-List Awards identify the best enterprise solutions -- field proven for today's challenges. COMMAND/POST won the award based on customer accomplishment with the Boole & Babbage solution.

"Customers declare COMMAND/POST to be the best platform for consolidated service level monitoring. Once the system is up and running, the productivity benefits speak eloquently. One customer achieved 10 times the administrative productivity (a 1000% increase) with a headcount increase of only 30%," reported Nina Lytton, president of Open Systems Advisors Inc., the sponsors of the Crossroads A-list Awards.

"Although enterprisewide application management is an aggressive goal, customers say that COMMAND/POST can be implemented faster than the framework solutions. Custom integration is relatively straightforward -- there's an array of out-of-the box solutions for various environments and complementary management products. With effort appropriate to the scale of your ambitions, customers say you can deliver results fast with COMMAND/POST."

COMMAND/POST manages availability and service levels in a distributed, heterogeneous enterprise by providing a consolidated view of both commercial and in-house developed business systems. COMMAND/POST provides automated recovery, and the ability to drill down and discover the root cause of application service level deficiencies.

For rapid implementation, COMMAND/POST has pre-built monitoring agents for popular platforms and leading applications, plus bi-directional integration with Tivoli TME10, HP OpenView and CA-Unicenter frameworks. The COMMAND/POST Explorer Web browser interface, shipped in August 1998, is the desktop client of the COMMAND/POST family of products.

Multi-colored graphic icons, text and video image capabilities facilitate problem determination and resolution. These graphical displays provide end-to-end visibility while simplifying business service views. The COMMAND/POST Explorer interface allows customers to distribute service level information to users throughout their organization. It also provides the ease and simplicity of true interactive Web support via a Microsoft or Netscape browser.

"We are extremely proud of the success rate our customers are having in achieving and exceeding their service level goals with the COMMAND/POST family of products," said Gary Read, senior director client/server marketing for Boole & Babbage. "Winning this award from Open Systems Advisors is really representative of the successes our customers have achieved as the judging is based on in-depth customer interviews."

Sixth Annual Crossroads Conference

Winners of the Crossroads 99 A-List Awards and their customers will be recognized at the Sixth Annual Crossroads Conference to be held March 14-17, 1999 at the Westin Mission Hill Resort in Rancho Mirage, CA. Additional information on the conference can be obtained by contacting Janet Feld at 617.859.0589 or [e-mail].

About Open Systems Advisors

Founded in 1989, Open Systems Advisors Inc. (OSA) provides a real-world perspective on using new technology in business. OSA's research is based on an ongoing and in-depth dialogue with hundreds of seasoned IT executives and business leaders who are using emerging technologies to achieve business results. OSA reports the Crossroads Decisions, awards the Crossroads A-List and produces the Crossroads Conference. For additional information, contact the company at: Open Systems Advisors Inc., 268 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116, 617/859-0859; http://www.crossroads-osa.com.

About Boole & Babbage

Boole & Babbage is a worldwide leader in availability and service level management for distributed systems. Its Enterprise Automation product lines provide a management solution for the entire IT enterprise that encompasses systems, applications, middleware, databases and Web technologies.

The Boole & Babbage set of solutions is currently used by large manufacturing companies, domestic and international government agencies, the majority of the world's largest financial institutions, airlines, IT outsourcers and utilities to improve service levels and reduce IT management costs.

Founded in 1967, Boole & Babbage is the oldest publicly traded independent software vendor in the systems management industry and today is approximately a $225 million company with 930 employees in 43 offices in 26 countries. Corporate headquarters are located in San Jose, California. For more information, visit us on the Web at www.boole.com, or call [phone].

Boole & Babbage Inc. is a Tivoli (NYSE:IBM) premiere partner, a Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP) premier partner, an IBM (NYSE:IBM) BESTeam Member, and a Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) Solutions Developer.

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