Computer Associates' Unicenter TNG to Serve as Focus of Thai Universities' Enterprise Management Training Centers.

BANGKOK, Thailand--(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 25, 1998--

CA Joins Chulalongkorn University And King Mongkut's Institute Of

Technology To Establish Enterprise Management Curricula

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced agreements with two of Thailand's most prestigious universities - Chulalongkorn University and King Mongkut's Institute of Technology - to incorporate CA's Unicenter TNG enterprise management software into strategic educational programs, and establish on-campus training centers.

According to the agreements, the universities will standardize on Unicenter TNG for enterprise management, and make the technology available for use in undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

"As businesses today run in increasingly complicated multi-platform environments, there is a real need for software that manages the entire technology infrastructure," said assistant professor Sartid Vongpradhip, head of the Computer Engineering Department at Chulalongkorn University. "It has become essential for us to introduce relevant courses in the area of heterogeneous IT management. With Unicenter TNG, we've found a robust, flexible, end-to-end management solution that matches our requirements."

Unicenter TNG will be introduced into the curricula of the School of Computer Engineering at Chulalongkorn University and the Faculty of Information Technology at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology. The establishment of authorized Unicenter TNG training centers will encourage leading-edge research in third-party development applications running on the software.

"We saw a demand for quality courses that focused on enterprise management, and chose to add CA's Unicenter TNG into our core curriculum," said Surasit Vannakrairojn, dean, Faculty of Information Technology at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology. "Many businesses view Unicenter TNG as the de facto standard in enterprise management, and we are delighted to partner with the technology leader."

The universities will have unlimited use of Unicenter TNG technology for educational and research purposes. CA will also provide full training and technical support services to ensure that trainers and students have the opportunity to gain in-depth skills in CA's enterprise management technology.

"We are proud to be so closely associated with two of Thailand's premier institutes of higher learning," said Chua Meng Pin, managing director, Computer Associates - ASEAN. "It is important that today's university graduates appreciate and understand the technology that runs today's businesses. It will help them tremendously in preparing for the future."

Courses incorporating Unicenter TNG as the standard for enterprise management will be offered by both institutions starting next semester.

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 over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.5 billion in calendar 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.

Faculty of Information Technology, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, is newly founded in the year 1995, Thai IT Year, under a project of the IT faculty, and has been completely recognized to be the Faculty of Information Technology in 1996. The faculty has been established since the institute has realized the important role of information technology at the present time and the lack of IT people in the future. For more information, visit their home page at www.161.246.3811 or call: +[phone].

Chulalongkorn University is Thailand's first University, and was founded in 1916. Today Chulalongkorn University is a full-grown institution, a university in the true sense of the word and a leader in the field of higher education in Thailand. The University now has nineteen faculties, two colleges, thirteen institutes, one center and three affiliated institutions. The Chulalongkorn campus occupies a site of 500 acres of land granted by King Rama VI at the time of the foundation in 1916. The buildings number 187 altogether. For more information, visit their home page at www.cp.eng.chula.ac.th or call: +(662) 2183741. -0- All product names referenced herein are the trademarks of their respective companies.

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