Computer Associates Introduces Ingres II, Industry's Most Advanced Cross-platform RDBMS Solution.

CA-WORLD, NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 1998--

New "Harmony" Technology Allows Complete Access To Data Across The Enterprise, Lowers Costs Of Developing, Deploying And Managing Mission-Critical Applications

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today introduced Ingres II, a complete information management solution that combines the proven reliability and strength of CA's relational database technology with the ability to access data from virtually any enterprise resource. By providing true cross-platform interoperability, Ingres II allows users to fully leverage data resources and maximize existing IT Investments.

A critical component of Harmony, CA's comprehensive information infrastructure, Ingres II presents a new approach to n-tiered relational application management and information technology. It offers a complete solution for managing the complexity of distributed data sources, while maintaining the product strengths and reliability that users of CA's OpenIngres and Ingres have come to expect.

"Ingres II takes CA's powerful RDBMS technology to an even higher level," said John Ainsworth, CA vice president of Ingres II development. "Tens of thousands of users have chosen CA's Ingres and OpenIngres products for their mission-critical, client/server, and Internet computing environments. By providing even greater functionality, Ingres II offers the most comprehensive solution for efficiently managing information across today's heterogeneous environments."

Ingres II addresses current industry needs by lowering the total costs associated with developing, deploying, and managing mission-critical n-tier applications. By combining support for a wide range of platforms, including Windows desktops, Windows NT, UNIX, and other servers with connectivity to legacy data, Ingres II is the only relational solution that covers the entire spectrum of client/server environments.

Ingres II is ideally suited for advanced data warehousing, high transaction throughput, and Internet commerce applications. It incorporates a mission-critical RDBMS, the robust object-oriented OpenROAD development environment, enterprise access gateways for transparent read-write access to popular data sources, Internet publishing tools, and additional components that enable distributed systems.

Ingres II provides transparent access to a diverse range of data sources, including database management systems from Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase, and Informix. This unique flexibility allows developers to utilize and build upon legacy data and other investments to create complete customized information management environments that set the stage for future migration, growth, and data distribution.

Ingres II includes a wide range of enhancements and upgrades to CA's RDBMS products, such as the ability to call OpenROAD methods from C/C++ and Microsoft Visual Basic. Other new features include a native ODBC driver, enhanced replication, row-level locking specified on a table or user-basis, and expanded Web-connectivity through native API support for the Microsoft, Netscape and Spyglass Web servers.

Numerous product options --such as Developer Options, DBMS Options, Connectivity Options, Data Access Options, Distributed Database Options and Platform-Specific Options-- make Ingres II a cost-effective RDBMS solution for any-size company, in any industry.

Ingres II is a key component of CA's Harmony initiative, a comprehensive information infrastructure that allows organizations to exploit new technologies while integrating existing applications and data sources. Harmony provides an extensible, vendor-neutral, standards-friendly platform on which CA and other vendors can build durable solutions.

Coinciding with CA's launch of Ingres II are numerous RDBMS product development efforts intended to further enhance support for Java, VLDB and mission-critical, parallel database processing. In addition, continued exploitation of new operating system platforms and capabilities, combined with the ability to maintain highly-available, dynamic systems, will provide Ingres II users with even greater flexibility and benefit.

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. -0-

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