Computer Associates Strengthens Global Presence; Announces Plans for New, State-of-the-Art European Headquarters.

LONDON and ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 1997--

CA Chooses United Kingdom's Thames Valley For Expansive High-Tech

Facility; Hundreds Of New Jobs To Be Created

Strengthening its global presence, Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced its new, state-of-the-art European headquarters. The new facility, located in the United Kingdom's Thames Valley, is expected to generate hundreds of jobs and will be a centre for training, software research and development, sales, technical support and marketing across Europe.

The campus, expected to cost more than #100 million, will be entirely managed by CA's revolutionary software, Unicenter TNG, which regulates computing environments as well as heating, ventilation, telephone networks and countless other functions. The new facility will incorporate a state-of-the-art 250,000 square-foot office building, as well as on-site child development and fitness centres. A Virtual Enterprise Centre will allow CA clients to experience CA software running in their own environments, and an advanced European training/conference facility will be housed in historic Ditton Manor.

In a conference at the Hotel Intercontinental in London, CA Chairman and CEO Charles B. Wang revealed that the new headquarters represents the first of many tangible signs that CA considers Europe to be a vital technology frontier going into the next millennium. Mr. Wang's announcement initiated the "groundbreaking" of the facility site - by the M4 in Datchet.

"This initiative reflects our absolute commitment to increasing CA's presence and success in Europe--a region with enormous growth potential," said Mr. Wang. "The Thames Valley, widely known as the 'Silicon Valley' of the U.K., was the clear choice for our centralised European headquarters because it offered a very high concentration of technical knowledge and expertise, a business-friendly infrastructure, and many other benefits. The area provides the perfect conditions for building our corporate resources, and Ditton Park's prime location near Heathrow Airport makes it extremely conducive to our plans for expansion."

CA has maintained a strong presence in Europe for almost 20 years, and is seeking to centralise the co-ordination of its diverse offices in an area where the company can fully benefit from regional expertise and a business-focused infrastructure.

According to Mr. Wang, the U.K.-based headquarters will allow CA to build on its relationships with European educational institutions, and provide an advanced environment for learning, research and development. The centre will also reflect CA's corporate philosophy of integrating work and family life--creating an ideal climate for empowering employees and encouraging them to excel.

Opening in the autumn of 1999, the revolutionary business campus will feature an on-site Montessori-based Child Development Centre for employees' children. The facility will include dedicated instructors, high-tech teaching aids, and an outdoor playground--all for the express purpose of educating and caring for up to 100 children, from infancy through nursery. The Centre will be modeled after CA's New York facility, the recipient of numerous awards and industry accolades.

In addition to providing an employee-friendly working environment and creating hundreds of new jobs, CA has committed to preserving, restoring and enhancing the existing site--an historic location that houses many notable buildings, including Ditton Manor. As part of the restoration project, CA will revitalise the site's diverse ecosystem, which includes ponds, wetlands, parklands and the Manor House moat. CA will also work to preserve the harmony of the region's local infrastructure.

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 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. -0- All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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